{"id":120978,"date":"2025-08-05T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120978\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:32:13","slug":"russia-ends-its-self-imposed-moratorium-on-intermediate-range-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120978\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia ends its self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race as tensions<\/a> between Moscow and Washington rise again over Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In a statement Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry linked the decision to efforts by the U.S. and its allies to develop intermediate range weapons and preparations for their deployment in Europe and other parts of the world. It specifically cited U.S. plans to deploy Typhoon and Dark Eagle missiles in Germany starting next year.<\/p>\n

The ministry noted that such actions by the U.S. and its allies create \u201cdestabilizing missile potentials\u201d near Russia, creating a \u201cdirect threat to the security of our country\u201d and carry \u201csignificant harmful consequences for regional and global stability, including a dangerous escalation of tensions between nuclear powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t say what specific moves the Kremlin might take, but President Vladimir Putin<\/a> has previously announced that Moscow was planning to deploy its new Oreshnik missiles<\/a> on the territory of its neighbor and ally Belarus later this year.<\/p>\n

Asked where and when Russia could potentially deploy intermediate-range weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it\u2019s not something to be announced in advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia no longer has any limitations, Russia no longer considers itself to be constrained by anything,\u201d Peskov told reporters. \u201cTherefore Russia believes it has the right to take respective steps if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDecisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by the leadership of the Russian Federation based on an interdepartmental analysis of the scale of deployment of American and other Western land-based intermediate-range missiles, as well as the development of the overall situation in the area of international security and strategic stability,\u201d the Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s move follows Trump\u2019s nuclear messaging<\/p>\n

The Russian statement follows President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement<\/a> Friday that he\u2019s ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines \u201cbased on the highly provocative statements\u201d of Dmitry Medvedev, who was president in 2008-12 to allow Putin, bound by term limits, to later return to the office. Trump\u2019s statement came as his deadline for the Kremlin to reach a peace deal in Ukraine approaches later this week.<\/p>\n

Trump said he was alarmed by Medvedev\u2019s attitude. Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council chaired by Putin, has apparently sought to curry favor with his mentor by making provocative statements and frequently lobbing nuclear threats. Last week. he responded to Trump\u2019s deadline for Russia to accept a peace deal in Ukraine or face sanctions by warning him against \u201cplaying the ultimatum game with Russia\u201d and declaring that \u201ceach new ultimatum is a threat and a step toward war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medvedev also commented on the Foreign Ministry\u2019s statement, describing Moscow\u2019s withdrawal from the moratorium as \u201cthe result of NATO countries\u2019 anti-Russian policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cExpect further steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

INF treaty abandoned in 2019<\/p>\n

Intermediate-range missiles can fly between 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,400 miles). Such land-based weapons were banned under the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. <\/p>\n

Trump withdrew from the pact in his first term, citing Russian violations, which Moscow denied. It, in turn, alleged the U.S. had committed violations. The treaty was terminated in 2019, but the Kremlin declared its self-imposed moratorium on their deployment until the U.S. makes such a move.<\/p>\n

The collapse of the INF Treaty has stoked fears of a replay of a Cold War-era European missile crisis, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union both deployed intermediate-range missiles on the continent in the 1980s. Such weapons are seen as particularly destabilizing because they take less time to reach targets, compared with intercontinental ballistic missiles, leaving no time for decision-makers and raising the likelihood of a global nuclear conflict over a false launch warning.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s missile forces chief has declared that the new Oreshnik intermediate range missile, which Russia first used against Ukraine in November, has a range to reach all of Europe. Oreshnik can carry conventional or nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

Putin has praised the Oreshnik\u2019s capabilities, saying its multiple warheads that plunge to a target at speeds up to Mach 10 are immune to being intercepted and are so powerful that the use of several of them in one conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

Putin has warned the West that Moscow could use it against Ukraine\u2019s NATO allies who allowed Kyiv to use their longer-range missiles to strike inside Russia.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press receives support for nuclear security coverage from the Carnegie Corporation of New York<\/a> and Outrider Foundation<\/a>. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n

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Additional AP coverage of the nuclear landscape: https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/the-new-nuclear-landscape\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3881,25818,9852,37325,69,57,3464,24531,50,80,257,3658,3657,67,132,68,274,96,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-120978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-belarus","11":"tag-dmitry-medvedev","12":"tag-dmitry-peskov","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-international-agreements","16":"tag-moscow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-russia-government","21":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-war-and-unrest","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114976413782308699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}