Russian President orders to modernize the country’s air defense system
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the deployment of missiles by the United States in Europe poses a threat to Russia and regretted that the international community does not accept the “Russian moratorium” on ballistic programs.
After meeting with several senior officials in the Defense Ministry and the Army, Putin has indicated that the US plans to deploy medium-range missiles in Europe “are known to all.” “This also represents a great danger and threat to us,” he said, according to information from the Sputnik news agency.
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Moscow is concerned about the United States’ intention to deploy missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, reached in the late 1980s between the Soviet Union and United States. This pact prohibits ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
However, on August 2, 2019, Washington definitively broke the treaty, claiming that Russia was violating it. Moscow also suspended its commitment to the INF Treaty in response to the actions of the United States.
Thus, Putin has insisted that the country will give an “adequate response” to attempts by third countries to break the “strategic parity”, something of which he has accused those who seek to deploy “missile defense systems near Russian borders ». “We cannot help but realize the existence of these threats to the security of Russia. We will respond appropriately to this situation, “he said.
For this reason, the Russian president has urged to modernize the Russian air defense system in view of the “increase in the number of NATO flights near its borders” and to more easily detect “hypersonic and ballistic missiles of all kinds.”
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