Medvedev gave the answer: Wait for further steps

Lifting the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF) — this is a new reality that all opponents of Russia will have to reckon with. This was stated in the social network by the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

"The statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the lifting of the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles is the result of the anti-Russian policy of NATO countries. This is a new reality that all our opponents will have to reckon with," Medvedev writes.

"Wait for further steps," he added.

Recall, today the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the lifting of the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of the INF.

"Since our repeated warnings ... have been ignored and the situation is developing along the path of the actual deployment of American—made ground-based INF missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the relevant previously adopted self-restrictions," the statement said. departments.

It is noted that decisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by the Russian leadership "based on an interdepartmental analysis of the scale of deployment of American and other Western ground-based INF missiles, as well as the general development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability."