Russia has announced Monday that it raises the moratorium on the deployment of short and medium -range missiles that was imposed in 2019 After leaving the International Treaty on Nuclear Forces of Intermediate Rank (INF) of elimination of this class of weapons signed in 1987 by the Soviet Union and the United States.
“The Foreign Ministry confirms The disappearance of the conditions to maintain that unilateral moratorium on the deployment of that armament And he is authorized to declare that the Russia Federation is not considered more linked to the limitations imposed in the past, “says the official statement hung on the exterior website.
Moscow emphasizes that, after maintaining that limitation until American manufacturing analogous armament was display An arms race in the mundo.
“On the other hand, we must verify that LAt Russian initiative it has not found reciprocity. The US and its allies not only announced openly their plans to locate short and medium range missiles in different regions, but also advanced significantly in the practical implementation of their intentions, “he says.
Denounces that Washington has proceeded in recent years to carry out rehearsals; Start the series production of such armament and prepare the infrastructure for its future site.
The statement emphasizes that since 2023 the United States has deployed An unprecedented number of systems in Europe capable of carrying short and medium -range missiles to put said armament during military exercises that have “a clear anti -rusive channel.”
Specifically, the deployment during maneuvers in Denmark of MK70 systems, missile launches manufactured by the Lockheed Martin corporation; While Australia and the Philippines were sent half -range missile systems Typhon.
Other factors after the Russian decision are the plans of some White House allies to acquire US land site missiles or develop their own weapons with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
All these steps from the West, indicates the official note, leads to the formation near Russia’s borders of a destabilizing missile potential that “creates a direct threat – of strategic order – for the safety of our country.”
The resignation of the moratorium is a response measure whose purpose is to “counteract the threats that have arisen again” and maintain “the strategic balance.” This happens three days after the US president Donald Trump announced in response to an alleged Russian threat.
In December 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin had already advanced that, due to the growing activities of the US in that area, Russia could be forced to lift the corresponding moratorium.
Russia announced the moratorium in September 2019, one month after leaving with Washington – Eeu did it a day before – the Short and Half -Scope missile elimination treaty (INF), signed in 1987 by the US and the Soviet Union.
