Russia will no longer adhere to the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and shorter-range ground-based missiles on its territory, allegedly due to the steps of the “collective West.”

As  Censor.NET reports , this is stated in a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The statement says that Russia no longer considers itself “bound by the aforementioned moratorium, as “Russian initiatives for self-restraint on the deployment of INF have not met with reciprocity.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry refers to the buildup of ground-based INF by the “collective West”, in particular American-made ones, and their deployment in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

“An important additional factor is the intention declared by several US allies to purchase land-based INF from Washington and/or to develop their own missiles with a launch range falling within the range of 500 to 5,500 km, or to increase the existing national arsenal of such weapons. 

The above-mentioned steps of the “collective West” in aggregate lead to the formation and build-up of destabilizing missile potentials in the regions adjacent to the Russian Federation, which pose a direct threat to the security of our country, and of a strategic nature. In general, such a development of events carries a serious negative charge and significant detrimental consequences for regional and global stability, including a dangerous incitement of tension between nuclear powers,” Russia says.

“Decisions on the specific parameters of response measures will be made by the leadership of the Russian Federation based on an interdepartmental analysis of the scale of the deployment of American and other Western ground-based INFs, as well as the general development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

For reference

It should be noted that intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (IRRBMs) are ground-based ballistic and cruise missiles capable of covering distances from 500 to 5,500 kilometers and, as a rule, carrying a nuclear warhead.

In 1987, a treaty was signed in Washington between the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate the INF Treaty, which was in effect until 2019.

The United States then declared that Russia had violated the treaty by deploying the 9M729 missile system and announced the termination of the treaty. In August 2019, the Russian Foreign Ministry officially announced that the treaty had ceased to operate.

Dictator Vladimir Putin then stated that if the US deployed medium-range missiles in Europe, Russia would be forced to do the same, but stressed that Russia had no intention of being the first to do so.

The US and NATO stated that Russia was de facto not adhering to the moratorium it had declared.

Author:  Valeria Sushkova Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3566985

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