Russia plans to lift restrictions on the deployment of medium and short-range missiles: what does this mean?

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Russian Federation does not consider itself a country bound by the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range ground-based missiles.

This was reported by Astra.

The ministry emphasizes that the conditions for maintaining the moratorium have “disappeared.”

In particular, the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry speaks of the buildup of ground-based intermediate- and shorter-range missiles (INF) by the “collective West.” At the same time, it emphasizes the alleged deployment of weapons in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

“Decisions on the specific parameters of response measures will be made by the leadership of the Russian Federation based on an interagency analysis of the scale of the deployment of American and other Western ground-based INFs,” the statement is quoted as saying.

In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry assures that it will pay attention to the general development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability.

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The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987. It stipulated that the countries would neither manufacture nor test ballistic missiles with ranges between 500 km and 5,500 km.

In 2019, Donald Trump announced that due to Russia’s violation of the treaty’s requirements, the United States would begin a six-month withdrawal period. And in August of that year, the document expired.

Earlier, the American Institute for the Study of War reported that the Kremlin is deliberately creating the basis for breaking international arms control agreements , trying to prepare for a possible large-scale confrontation with NATO.

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