Moscow Times – Aug 5, 2025
Russia will no longer observe its voluntary ban on deploying intermediate-range missiles, the Foreign Ministry announced on Monday, citing what it called growing threats from the United States and other Western countries.
Moscow imposed the unilateral moratorium after the U.S. withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019. Washington had accused Russia of violating the agreement, which banned the deployment of land-based missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
“Russia directly called upon NATO countries to declare a reciprocal moratorium,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that it sought to prevent an arms race in the Asia-Pacific. No agreement was ever reached.
On Monday, the ministry accused the United States of testing, producing and deploying INF-class missiles in regions critical to Russian security and said the conditions for maintaining its unilateral moratorium “have ceased to exist.”
“We are authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the previously adopted self-imposed restrictions,” the ministry said, adding that future “response measures” would depend on the scale of Western deployments.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov had signaled in June that Moscow could abandon the moratorium, calling it a “logical” step given what he described as “highly sensitive missile threats” from the West.
Later on Monday, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev called the move a direct result of NATO’s “anti-Russian policy.”
“This is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with. Expect further steps,” he wrote in English on X.
Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012, has recently exchanged barbs with U.S. President Donald Trump, who announced last week that he ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines in response to Medvedev’s nuclear saber rattling on social media.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said it “believes it has the right to take appropriate measures and steps if necessary” following the decision to suspend its unilateral moratorium.
“One should not expect a formal announcement here,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to the possibility of Russia deploying INF-class missiles in the future. “After all, this concerns the defense sector, a rather sensitive and non-public area.”
“President Donald Trump, who announced last week that he ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines…”
Yea and they are “crewed” by queers, lesbians and affirmative action hires. Very scary ha ha ha
JEWSA is the enemy of europa, not russia !
I was surprised to hear President Putin has agreed to meet President Trump in Alaska, an American state. Behind the scenes many US neo-cons like Lindsey Graham could demand Trump arrests Putin for those trumped-up kidnap war crimes charges, but it’s so close to Russia the Spetnaz are probably on stand-by.
And Trump knows the Russians aren’t so undiplomatic as to try to snatch him, especially not on US soil, but if it makes Trump sweat a bit that’s a free laugh for the Russians. His presidential cavalcade – plane, cars, men – might give the Russians lots of electronic intel to analyse as well as their security protocols. This may help Russia to guage if a US presidential cavalcade is a real one – maybe not enough cars, too few men – to help them guess if the US President really is wherever they claim, or whether he may be in a bunker and something might be going down. It’s all guesswork but intel will be gained by both sides.
The two Yid governed nations of US & Russia pretending to be ‘enemies’ for the various tards again, as they did during the phony ‘Cold War’ era.
Nigel Farage says young male asylum seekers should “not be free to walk the streets” after a slew of arrests in Bournemouth.
The Reform UK leader was reacting to bombshell figures revealing at least 312 asylum seekers have been charged with a shocking 708 alleged criminal offences in just three years, including theft, assault and rape.
SEND THEM ALL HOME