News From Antiwar.com The US pulled out of the INF treaty in 2019 and has deployed missile systems previously banned by the treaty
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Moscow was no longer bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of missiles that were previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019.
The INF prohibited land-based missile systems with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles. Since pulling out of the treaty, the US has developed a missile launcher, known as a Typhon, that can fire nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of over 1,000 miles. The US has deployed the Typhon, also known as the Mid-Range Capability System, to the Philippines and briefly to Denmark for drills.
The US has also announced plans to deploy missile systems previously banned by the INF to Germany by 2026, and Berlin recently requested to procure its own Typhon system from the US.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in its statement: “With our repeated warnings on that matter having gone ignored and the situation developing towards the de facto deployment of US-made intermediate-and shorter-range ground-based missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian Foreign Ministry has to declare that any conditions for the preservation of a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar arms no longer exist, and it is further authorized to state that the Russian Federation does not consider itself bound by relevant self-restrictions approved earlier.”
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