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Jul 28. () –
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Sunday that he will lift his country’s unilateral moratorium on medium- and short-range weapons if the United States installs long-range missiles in Germany in 2026.
Putin believes that the installation of these missiles will threaten “important Russian military and government control facilities, administrative and industrial centres and defence infrastructure”, and understands that such projectiles “could be equipped with nuclear warheads that could reach Russian territory in 10 minutes”, explained the Russian president during a ceremony in St. Petersburg to honour Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy Fyodor Ushakov on the occasion of Navy Day.
The president has warned that if Washington implements these plans, Russia will consider itself “free from the previously assumed unilateral moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range attack weapons, including the increase in the capabilities of the Navy’s coastal forces,” according to statements reported by the Russian agency TASS.
The US-German announcement stressed that the deployment is intended to demonstrate Washington’s “commitment” to NATO and its contributions to “European integrated deterrence” and specifies that “these long-range conventional units will include SM-6 (missiles), Tomahawk and developed hypersonic weapons, which have a significantly longer range than current ground-based materials in Europe.”
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