Dmitri Medvedev, vice -president of the Russian Security Council. Photo source: Kommersant Photo Agency / DDP USA / Profimedia
Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on Monday accused NATO countries of resignation to the Moratory on short -range nuclear missiles and said Moscow will take additional measures in response to the actions of the Alliance, reports Reuters.
Medvedev, who carried an exchange of acid replicas on social networks with US President Donald Trump, made these statements after Russia's Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow is not obliged to comply with the Moraror on conducting short -range nuclear missiles.
“The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia regarding the withdrawal of the Moratory on conducting short-range and average rockets is the result of NATO's anti-Russian policy,” Medvedev wrote in English on X.
“This is a new reality that all our opponents will have to face. Expect additional measures.”
Medvedev, who currently holds the position of vice -president of the powerful Russia Security Council, has not given more details.
The US withdrew from the Treaty on Nuclear Forces with intermediate range in 2019, invoking its non-observance by Russia. Since then, Russia has said that it will not carry on such weapons, provided Washington does not.
However, Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov reported in December last year that Moscow will have to respond to what he called “destabilizing actions” in the US and NATO in the strategic sphere.
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“As the situation evolves towards the effective conduct of medium and short-range rockets manufactured in the US in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia finds that the conditions for maintaining the unilateral morality have disappeared on the development of similar weapons,” the Russian Ministry said.
The Treaty of INF, signed in 1987 by the Soviet leader Mihail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan, eliminated a whole category of weapons – the missiles launched from the ground with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
Medvedev, initially considered in the West a moderate and reformor potential, has become one of the most aggressive senior officials in Moscow.
Trump said last Friday that he ordered the move of two nuclear submarines to “appropriate regions” in response to Medvedev's remarks on the risk of a war between the two nuclear powers.
