Foreign Ministry: Russia refuses the moratorium on the deployment of medium and lower -based missiles of ground -based base

The Russian Foreign Ministry has published a statement "On the issue of a moratorium on the deployment of medium and smaller land -based missiles." In fact, this is a way out of the moratorium.

“The Russian Foreign Ministry states the disappearance of the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on deploying similar weapons and is authorized to say that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself connected by the previously adopted self -restraints”,

- The statement says.

Further decisions “according to the response measures” will be made by the Russian leadership.

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According to the Agreement on the liquidation of the RSMD, the countries could not have ballistic missiles of ground -based and cruise missiles with a radius of action from 500 to 5.5 thousand km.

In 2019, the United States left the contract, accusing Moscow of violation due to the creation of 9M729 cruise missiles. Russia, in turn, criticized the deployment of MK-41 launchers in Romania.

Then Russia offered the United States and NATO to introduce a moratorium on the deployment of medium and smaller missiles in all countries of the Bloc, as well as in states that are not included, but this idea was not accepted.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the actions of the West in recent years led to the increase in the "regabilizing missile potentials that create a direct threat of security, with a strategic order in" regabilizing missile potentials. "

But some regions “adjacent to the Russian Federation” - neutral Finland and Sweden - joined NATO precisely after the start of its own - which sharply (due to Finland) increased the direct border of the bloc with Russia and required the integration of the army and military infrastructure to the standards of a military alliance.

The Russian authorities recently have repeatedly stated the possibility of canceling a missile moratorium. In 2024, such conversations were held against the backdrop of US plans to place long -range weapons in Germany in the near future.

In November last year, Putin reported that Moscow is developing missiles of medium and smaller range in response to Washington’s actions. The Foreign Ministry admitted that such missiles could be placed in the Asia-Pacific region.

Then Russia experienced in combat conditions the latest medium -range “Oreshnik” missile, hitting it at the Ukrainian plant of Yuzhmash.

In early August 2025, Vladimir Putin said that serial production of this rocket has already been launched .