US Transfer of Medium-range Nuclear Missiles
to Denmark Prompts Russia to Resume
Production of Similar Weapons
TopWar.Ru

MOSCOW (June 29 2024) — The President of Russia held meetings with permanent members of the Security Council. The Kremlin press service publishes data that the meeting, held via video conference, chaired by the President, who is the Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, was attended by Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and a number of other persons.

The main agenda of the meeting was the issue of a moratorium on medium- and shorter-range missiles.

Vladimir Putin recalled that several years ago the United States withdrew from the INF Treaty. Head of State:
We announced in 2019 that we will not produce them, these missiles, and will not deploy them until the United States deploys these systems in some region of the world. Today it is known that the United States not only produces these missile systems, but has already brought them to Europe for exercises, to Denmark. They were just recently announced to be in the Philippines.

Putin added that it is unknown whether these missiles were removed from there or not.

The President took the initiative to respond to this kind of action by the United States. According to him, it is necessary to begin production of such strike systems and make decisions about their locations to ensure Russian security.

Thus, in the near future, medium- and short-range missiles may once again become one of the items for the country’s military industry. Accordingly, after this it will be possible to deploy INF missiles in selected positional areas so that they can cause significant damage deep in enemy territory in the event of aggression against our country and people.

For reference: The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 by the then-heads of the USSR and the USA, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. Each side pledged to eliminate stockpiles of two types of ballistic missiles — with a range of destruction from 500 to 1000 km and from 1000 to 5,5 thousand km.

Putin Discusses INF Treaty
With Russian Security Council
TASS

MOSCOW (June 28, 2024) — The situation around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was the central topic of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the Russian Security Council.

“Today, we will discuss Russia’s further steps concerning the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-and shorter-range ground-based missiles,” he said.

Putin recalled that several years ago the United State had withdrawn from the treaty under an invented pretext and announced its plans to manufacture such missile systems.

In 2019, Russia pledged that it would refrain from manufacturing and deploying such systems as long as the United States refuses to deploy them in any part of the world.

“Now, it is known that the United States not only produced these missile systems, but has already used them during drill in Europe, in Denmark. Not long ago, it was announced that they are in the Philippines. There is no information about whether these missiles were removed from there or not,” Putin said.

Russian Foreign and Defense Ministers, Sergey Lavrov and Andrey Belousov, delivered reports on this topic.

Earlier, the United States announced plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Asia to contain China.

On August 2, 2019, the United States formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by the Soviet Union and the United States on December 8, 1987. The US justified this move by Russia’s alleged refusal to comply with the American ultimatum-like demand that the new 9M729 cruise missiles be eliminated as they violated the INF Treaty. Moscow vehemently denied these accusations, saying that the technical parameters of the 9M729 missile is within the parameters allowed by the treaty and presented counterclaims to Washington.

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