The decision to cancel the moratorium on the placement of medium and smaller missiles was a response to the anti -Russian policy of NATO states. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev on his page on the social network X.
“This is a new reality with which all our opponents will have to reckon. Wait for further steps,” Medvedev wrote, commenting on the statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the termination of the voluntary moratorium. restrictions on
on the eve of August 4, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the termination of the voluntary moratorium on the deployment of ground -long and smaller terrestrial missiles, introduced after the United States from the INFMD in 2019.
The statement of the foreign policy of the foreign policy emphasizes that the continuing promotion of the military infrastructure of NATO to Russian borders and the Russian borders and The deployment of American missile systems in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Moscow no longer considers it possible to restrain itself unilaterally.