It appears that Putin hopes to engineer a "re-do" of the 1983 deployment of U.S. ground-launched cruise missiles and PershingII ballistic missiles in five West European countries.
In 1983, the issue was whether the NATO alliance would proceed with its agreed plan to deploy hundreds of PershingII ballistic missiles and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five Western European nations (collectively known as Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces or INF).