{"id":313365,"date":"2025-08-09T05:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313365"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:12:23","slug":"russia-ends-voluntary-ban-on-intermediate-range-missile-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313365","title":{"rendered":"Russia Ends Voluntary Ban on Intermediate-Range Missile Deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow Times \u2013 Aug 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia will no longer observe its voluntary ban on deploying intermediate-range missiles, the Foreign Ministry announced<\/a> on Monday, citing what it called growing threats from the United States and other Western countries.<\/p>\n

Moscow imposed the unilateral\u00a0moratorium after the U.S. withdrew from the\u00a01987 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia directly called upon NATO countries to declare a reciprocal moratorium,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201chave ceased to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the previously adopted self-imposed restrictions,\u201d the ministry said, adding that future \u201cresponse measures\u201d would depend on the scale of Western deployments.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov had signaled<\/a> in June that Moscow could abandon the moratorium, calling it a \u201clogical\u201d step given what he described as \u201chighly sensitive missile threats\u201d from the West.<\/p>\n

Later on Monday, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev called the move a direct result of NATO\u2019s \u201canti-Russian policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with. Expect further steps,\u201d he wrote<\/a> in English on X.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Medvedev\u2019s nuclear saber rattling on social media.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Kremlin said<\/a> it\u00a0\u201cbelieves it has the right to take appropriate measures and steps if necessary\u201d following the decision to suspend its unilateral moratorium.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne should not expect a formal announcement here,\u201d spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to the possibility of Russia deploying INF-class missiles in the future.\u00a0\u201cAfter all, this concerns the defense sector, a rather sensitive and non-public area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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