In the Russian Federation threatened to get out of the moratorium on the placement of medium and shorter missiles

The Russian Foreign Ministry representative Volodymyr Yermakov accused the United States and their allies of implementing "destabilizing military programs". The Russian Federation may abandon a unilateral moratorium on the placement of medium and smaller lands. This was stated by the Director of the Department for Non -Playing and Control of the Arms of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Volodymyr Yermakov in an interview with Russian news agent Tarks on April 25.

According to Yermakov, Russia may be pushed with "US actions". The diplomat said the Russian Federation would adhere to its moratorium depending on the range of deployed American missiles and their characteristics. "As for the rocket weapons of American production, potentially capable of appearing in the Asia-Pacific (APR), including the territory of Japan, its speed characteristics are far from the only criterion that we will evaluate such deployment. ", - Yermakov said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry representative states that the mentioned moratorium became fragile because of the "destabilizing US military programs and their allies. " The publication also states that in 2019, the United States suspended its participation in the treaty on medium and less range missiles (RSMD), referring to the violation of the agreement on the Russian side.

The Medium and Low Procedure Missiles Treaty was concluded between the USSR and the United States in 1987 in Washington and came into force in 1988. The document was signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. The RSMD envisaged the first history of elimination of all complexes of ballistic and winged landscapes of ground base (1000-5500 km) and smaller (from 500 to 1000 km) range. In addition, the parties pledged not to produce, test or deploy such weapons in the future.

The contract was fully executed until June 1991. As a result, 1846 Soviet missile complexes and 846 American were destroyed. After several mutual accusations of violating the terms of the agreement in February 2019, the United States and Russia decided to get out of its obligations to RSMD. The contract finally terminated on August 2, 2019. Recall that on April 25, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev hinted at the admissibility of nuclear weapons.

He also stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine in response to "NATO expansion". Earlier, March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the placement of nuclear weapons in Belarus. According to him, the construction of the relevant storage will be completed by early July. We also wrote that on February 21, Vladimir Putin declared a suspension of Russia's participation in the US treaty with strategic offensive weapons.