Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned the USA in regards to the potential deployment of long-range missiles in Germany. He acknowledged that if this happens, Moscow would resume the manufacturing of intermediate-range nuclear weapons and place comparable missiles inside placing distance of the West, in keeping with Al Jazeera.
Earlier this month, the US introduced plans to start deploying long-range missiles in Germany beginning in 2026 as a part of a broader militarization effort, which can embody SM-6 and Tomahawk cruise missiles, and developmental hypersonic weapons. Vladimir Putin, throughout his speech to sailors from Russia, China, Algeria and India St. Petersburg to commemorate Russian Navy Day, Putin warned that this motion may provoke a “Chilly Conflict-style missile disaster.”
“The flight time to targets on our territory of such missiles, which sooner or later could also be outfitted with nuclear warheads, might be about 10 minutes,” Putin stated, ANI reported.
“We are going to take mirror measures to deploy, considering the actions of the USA, its satellites in Europe and in different areas of the world,” the Russian President added.
Notably, these missiles, able to travelling distances between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,420 miles), have been addressed within the Intermediate-Vary Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by the US and the Soviet Union in 1987. Nonetheless, each Washington and Moscow withdrew from the treaty in 2019, every accusing the opposite of violations, as reported by Al Jazeera.
Putin, who launched a army marketing campaign in Ukraine in 2022, frames the battle as a “historic wrestle” with the West, claiming that Russia was humiliated after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 because the West encroached on what he views as Moscow’s sphere of affect.
