Soldiers of the Air Defence Missile Squadron 2 walk past Patriot missile launchers in the background in Bad Suelze, northern Germany  on December 4, 2012. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any deployment of US-made Patriot missiles on Turkey's volatile border with war-ravaged Syria would exacerbate tensions, and said the two countries had failed to overcome their sharp differences on the conflict. &quot;Creating additional capabilities on the border does not defuse the situation but on the contrary exacerbates it,&quot; Putin told a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after talks in Istanbul.  AFP PHOTO / BERND WUSTNECK   GERMANY OUT
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