from Sputnik News:
Following the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russian President Vladimir Putin held a press conference, where he spoke about Russia’s next steps regarding the country’s medium- and short-range missile systems.
Russia could start building intermediate-range nuclear forces after the US “tore up” the treaty banning them, President Vladimir Putin has said.
“If you recall, I said that due to the US withdrawing from the [INF] treaty and announcing that they are starting to produce [the missiles], we also consider ourselves entitled to start research and development work, [first] designing and then manufacturing,” Putin told a press conference at the SCO summit in the Kazakh capital Astana.
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“We are carrying our R&D and design, we are ready to start the production process, in fact, we have already given appropriate instructions to the industry,” he added.
Putin also told reporters that if US deploys medium- and short-range missile complexes anywhere near Russia, the Russian Federation can take reciprocal action.
Russia is ready to begin production of short- and medium-range missiles, from an industrial point of view – Putin pic.twitter.com/b2gRZdyPiW
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