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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Russia no longer considers it a connected moratorium on the development of missiles of the middle and smaller range.
The ministry justified this decision on the basis of changes in the international situation and the actions of other countries, in particular the United States and their allies, who do not support Moscow self -service policy.
The Russian authorities announced one -way moratoriums in the development of medium and smaller missiles after the end of the Inf agreement, signed by Michael Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1987. Their development. In 2018, US President Donald Trump announced his departure from the contract, accusing Moscow of violation. In 2019, the contract was officially over.
In the summer of 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that he would respond to the “episodic” development of US missiles in Germany, declared for 2026. Berlin associated the plan with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, describing them.
Middle and smaller missiles are ballistic missiles and Cruz missiles, which can pass from 500 to 5500 kilometers and usually have a nuclear charge. The mutual development of such missiles would essentially repeat the state of the beginning of the 1980s when US missiles were developed in Germany, and the USSR, in turn, threatened Western Europe from its missiles in the middle train, writes Radio Liberty.