Putin threatens to restart medium-range missile production

If the U.S. makes plans like this, we will examine the release from the unilateral mortorium that was previously adopted for the delocation of weapons that have medium and short action skills”, Putin said during the naval parade in St Petersburg on July 28th.

Such missiles, which can fly between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, were subject to the treaty for nuclear weapons control signed by the US and the Soviet Union in 1987.

Washington and Moscow left the Treaty of Middle-ray Nuclear Forces in 2019 accusing each other of violating the treaty.

Later, Russia said it would not resume the production of such weapons as long as the US would not locate missiles abroad.

In early July, Washington and Berlin reported on “episoded applications” of long-range US missiles, including floating Tomahawk missiles, in Germany starting in 2026.

Putin said The key Russian administrative and military locations “would be in the range of such missiles, which “in the future could be equipped with nuclear heads and these missiles could reach our territories within 10 minutes”

This situation reminds us of the Cold War events related to the European delocation of medium-range American missiles”Putin said.

The Kremlin has already warned earlier this month that the announcement of American weapons disposal would imply that European capitals would become a target for Russian missiles. / REL