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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Russia no longer considers itself bound by self-imposed restrictions on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles (INF), and the conditions for maintaining this moratorium have disappeared, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
“The situation is developing along the path of the actual deployment of American-made land-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region (APR),” the department said in a statement on the issue of a moratorium on the deployment of land-based intermediate-range missiles.
The diplomatic department drew attention to the West's steps to deploy the INF and emphasized that they pose a direct threat to Russia's security. According to the statement, since 2023 Moscow has been recording precedents of transferring American systems capable of ground-based INF launches to European NATO countries to test these weapons during exercises.
“With regard to the Asia-Pacific region, we note that under the pretext of exercises in April 2024, the Typhon medium-range missile system was delivered to the Philippines, which is still on the archipelago. The same system was used in July of this year in Australia for live firing during the Talisman Sabre 2025 multilateral training events,” the statement says.
The ministry recalled that the Russian side made a direct call to NATO countries in 2019-2020 to declare a reciprocal moratorium on the deployment of weapons systems previously banned under the INF Treaty, and to US allies in the Asia-Pacific region to support efforts to prevent a race for such weapons in the region.
“Since our repeated warnings on this matter have been ignored… the Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the corresponding previously adopted self-restrictions,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 in Washington and is of indefinite duration. It prohibits the parties from having land-based ballistic missiles and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5.5 thousand km. The United States has repeatedly accused Russia of violating this treaty. –0–
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