The foreign Ministry warned the EU on the deployment of U.S. missiles
Moscow warns European countries from the placement on its territory of American missiles, told reporters Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko.
Moscow warns European countries from the placement on its territory of American missiles, told reporters Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko.
He drew attention that the issue of medium-range missiles is a matter of strategic stability And European security.
He drew attention that such placement would endanger the territory of those countries that " have the opportunity to bow under US pressure, if such pressure is ".
Grushko said that the Russian Federation took the signal from NATO about the fact that the Commonwealth has no plans on placing medium-range missiles in nuclear equipment.
"Any deployment of American medium-range missiles in the regions close to Russia will have a strategic meaning will influence the strategic balance, And this Danger is even more acute in comparison with strategic systems, because the flight time is reduced ", - noted Grushko.
The US And USSR signed the INF Treaty in 1987: the parties undertook to eliminate all the complexes And ballistic missiles with wings of accommodation land with an average (one thousand - 5, 5 thousands of kilometers) And smaller (from five hundred to one thousand kilometers) range.
in October 2018 trump has announced the release of the US capital from the agreement because of "noncompliance" by Moscow of the obligations, but the evidence for the U.S. side did not provide.
Russia many times stated that it fully complied with the rules of the INF Treaty. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that the Russian capital has very serious questions to Washington concerning the implementation of the Treaty by the Americans themselves.
in 2019 Russia in response to the actions of the United States has suspended its participation in the INF Treaty.
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