NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday issued a recent risk to the US of restarting the manufacturing of intermediate-range nuclear weapons to the US if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany.
Putin repeated an earlier warning that Russia may resume manufacturing of intermediate and shorter vary nuclear-capable missiles after which think about the place to deploy them after the US introduced related missiles to Europe and Asia.
This comes after, US introduced deployment of long-range fireplace capabilities in Germany in 2026 in an effort to show its dedication to Nato and European protection.
In a speech to mark Russian navy day within the former imperial capital of St Petersburg, Putin warned the US that it risked triggering a Chilly Conflict-style missile disaster with the transfer.
“If the US carries out such plans, we’ll think about ourselves liberated from the unilateral moratorium beforehand adopted on the deployment of medium- and short-range strike capabilities,” Putin mentioned.
“This case is harking back to the occasions of the Chilly Conflict associated to the deployment of American medium–vary Pershing missiles in Europe,” he added.
The Russian president additional claimed that Washington is stoking pressure by transferring Typhon missile programs to Denmark and the Philippines. He additionally in contrast the US pans to the Nato determination to deploy Pershing II launchers in Western Europe in 1979
“The flight time to targets on our territory of such missiles, which sooner or later could also be outfitted with nuclear warheads, will likely be about 10 minutes,” Putin mentioned.
“We’ll take mirror measures to deploy, considering the actions of the US, its satellites in Europe and in different areas of the world,” he added.
America’ “episodic deployments” are in preparation for longer-term stationing of such capabilities that may embody SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles and developmental hypersonic weapons which have an extended vary than present capabilities in Europe, Washington and Berlin mentioned.
Putin repeated an earlier warning that Russia may resume manufacturing of intermediate and shorter vary nuclear-capable missiles after which think about the place to deploy them after the US introduced related missiles to Europe and Asia.
This comes after, US introduced deployment of long-range fireplace capabilities in Germany in 2026 in an effort to show its dedication to Nato and European protection.
In a speech to mark Russian navy day within the former imperial capital of St Petersburg, Putin warned the US that it risked triggering a Chilly Conflict-style missile disaster with the transfer.
“If the US carries out such plans, we’ll think about ourselves liberated from the unilateral moratorium beforehand adopted on the deployment of medium- and short-range strike capabilities,” Putin mentioned.
“This case is harking back to the occasions of the Chilly Conflict associated to the deployment of American medium–vary Pershing missiles in Europe,” he added.
The Russian president additional claimed that Washington is stoking pressure by transferring Typhon missile programs to Denmark and the Philippines. He additionally in contrast the US pans to the Nato determination to deploy Pershing II launchers in Western Europe in 1979
“The flight time to targets on our territory of such missiles, which sooner or later could also be outfitted with nuclear warheads, will likely be about 10 minutes,” Putin mentioned.
“We’ll take mirror measures to deploy, considering the actions of the US, its satellites in Europe and in different areas of the world,” he added.
America’ “episodic deployments” are in preparation for longer-term stationing of such capabilities that may embody SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles and developmental hypersonic weapons which have an extended vary than present capabilities in Europe, Washington and Berlin mentioned.
