Russia will have to lift moratorium on deployment of medium- and shorter-range missiles - Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Russian moratorium on the deployment of short- and medium-range missiles is no longer viable and will have to be abandoned.
According to Censor.NET, DW writes about it.
"Our moratorium on the deployment of the short- and medium-range missiles is practically untenable, and we will have to abandon it," the minister said.
The Russian Foreign Minister justified Moscow's position by arguing that the United States, according to him, "ignored warnings from Russia and China and in practice moved to deploy weapons of this class in various regions of the world.
"According to Lavrov, Moscow demonstrated its "determination to implement compensatory measures" by conducting "combat tests" of the "Oreshnik" medium-range ballistic missile, which was fired by the Russian Armed Forces at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in late November.
Later, Vladimir Putin called the attack a response to Ukraine's strikes on Russian territory with American ATACMS and HIMARS missiles and British Storm Shadow missiles.
However, Lavrov did not talk about "what will happen after February 2026, when the START Treaty will cease to exist".
"A lot can happen in the coming year," he said.
As a reminder, Russia rejected Trump's proposal for talks, which included postponing Ukraine's accession to NATO for 20 years and deploying Western peacekeepers.