'Unviable': Lavrov says Russia will lift moratorium on medium- and short-range missiles

“Unviable”: Lavrov said that Russia will lift the moratorium on medium- and short-range missiles Sofia Rozhik

Russia is going to lift the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles capable of carrying a nuclear charge. The weapons of this class can attack at a distance of 500 to 5500 kilometers.

They say that Russia expressed its dissatisfaction with similar actions by the United States with this decision. This was reported by 24 Channel with reference to an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by Russian media.

Russia says moratorium on INF deployment unviable

Lavrov stated that the US “ignored warnings from Russia and China” and began deploying weapons of this class “in various regions of the world”.

Russia will have to abandon its unilateral moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate- and shorter-range missiles; today it is practically unviable and will have to be abandoned, one of the propaganda outlets quotes Lavrov as saying. publications.

Against this background, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled the “combat tests” of the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile on the Dnieper at the end of November.

Reference. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed in 1987 in Washington between the United States and the USSR. It was in force until 2019, when the United States announced the deployment of the 9M729 missile system by Russia. That same year, the Russian Foreign Ministry officially confirmed the termination of the treaty. At the same time, the Russians deny that the 9M729 missiles have a range of more than 500 kilometers.