The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the lifting of the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced the lifting of the moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles. This decision was made due to the disappearance of conditions for maintaining unilateral self-restrictions.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles. This is stated in the statement of the Russian diplomatic department, as reported by UNN.
(...) The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs states the disappearance of conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the relevant self-restrictions previously adopted. Decisions regarding the 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 ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles, as well as the overall development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability
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