Russia ups military ante, drops all restrictions on ground based short range missiles
"Russia no longer has any constraints in this regard. Russia does not consider itself limited by anything anymore. Russia considers itself entitled to take relevant measures and steps, if necessary," Peskov told the press, reports state media TASS.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow no longer considers itself bound by self-restrictions on deploying intermediate-and shorter-range missiles as the conditions for observing the moratorium have disappeared.
Stating that the West's actions regarding Ukraine have made any room for adhering to the INF next to impossible, Peskov added that these actions now constitute a 'direct threat' to Russia's national security. As such, Russia is no longer obliged to adhere to the treaty, he noted.
The Russian statement further added: 'Decisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by Russia's leadership based on an interagency analysis of the scale of the 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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