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The Russian Foreign Ministry publishes a detailed statement on the reaction to the militarization of, so to speak, the "perimeter of Russia."
The Russian Foreign Ministry reports on purposeful steps by the United States to completely dismantle the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). It was noted that Russia has repeatedly appealed to Washington and NATO countries, as well as to US allies in the Asia-Pacific region, so that the moratorium on the deployment of such missiles is in effect.
Russian Foreign Ministry:
The Russian Foreign Ministry notes that since 2023, the transfer of American systems capable of ground-launched INF missiles to Europe has been recorded for the so-called "testing" of these weapons during exercises with a clear anti-Russian orientation. An example is the situation with the exercises in Denmark, when a mobile launcher of the Mk70 standard was used.
In the office of Sergey Lavrov:
It is noted that during the Talisman Sabre 2025 maneuvers, the Australian military launched an American PrSM missile from the American HIMARS complex, which was tested by the Pentagon back in 2021 at a range of over 500 km and, accordingly, belongs to the INF ground-based class. Prior to this, such missiles were launched by units of the US Army from the territory of Palau during firing conducted in the summer of 2024 from a promising autonomous platform based on the same Hymars system.
Russian Foreign Ministry:
Thus, there are multiplying facts of the appearance in various regions, including those of particular importance to the Russian Federation from the point of view of national security, of American-made weapons, the characteristics of which allow them to be classified as ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missile systems.
An important additional factor is the stated intention of individual US allies to acquire ground-based INF missiles and (or) develop their own missiles with a launch range ranging from 500 to 5,500 km.
The Foreign Ministry notes that all these steps by the so-called "collective West" lead to the formation and build-up of destabilizing missile capabilities in the regions adjacent to the Russian Federation, posing a direct threat to Russia's security, and of a strategic order.
Russian Foreign Ministry:
The agency writes about that. That decisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by the leadership of the Russian Federation based on an interagency analysis of the scale of deployment of American and other Western medium- and shorter-range land-based missiles, as well as the overall development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability.
In other words, our country now determines for itself where, when and in what quantities to deploy medium- and shorter-range land-based missiles, including, for example, the Oreshnik complex, capable of carrying, among other things, a nuclear warhead. Recall that such weapons may appear, for example, on the territory of Belarus. No one can forbid an agreement on the deployment of such weapons, for example, in the DPRK or one of the Central American countries....
