Russia Medvedev issues a warning like Moscow says not bound by the missile treaty | Nuclear weapons

Russia is no longer linked by a moratorium on the deployment of short and medium-range nuclear missiles, said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with former president Dmitry Medvedev blaming NATO’s “anti-Russian” policy and warning that Moscow will take “additional measures” in response.

Medvedev, who has embarked on a War of words on social networks With the American president, Donald Trump, made his last Broadid plan after the announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.

“The Declaration of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium and short-range missiles is the result of the anti-Russian policy of NATO countries,” published Medvedev in English on the social media platform X.

“This is a new reality that all of our opponents will have to count. Expect other stages,” he said.

Medvedev, who is the deputy chief of the powerful Russian Security Council and made Several bellicic comments On Russia’s nuclear capacities in recent years, has not explained what “additional steps” can involve.

Last week, Trump said he had ordered two American nuclear submarines to reposition To the “appropriate regions” in response to Medvedev’s remarks on the risk of war between Washington and Moscow.

The Declaration of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium and short-range missiles is the result of the anti-Russian policy of NATO countries.
This is a new reality with which all our opponents will have to count. Expect other stages.

– Dmitry Medvedev (@MedveDevrussiae) August 4, 2025

In its declaration, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the development situation in Europe and Asia-Pacific has caused its revaluation of the deployment of short and medium-range missiles.

“Since the situation is developing towards the real deployment of terrestrial and short-term missiles founded in the American environment in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons have disappeared,” said the ministry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last year that Moscow may have to respond to what they have described as provocations by the United States and NATO by lifting restrictions on the deployment of missiles.

Lavrov told the Russian state news agency, Ria Novosti, in December, that the Unilateral Moscow moratorium on the deployment of these missiles was “practically no longer viable and should be abandoned”.

“The United States has arrogantly ignored the warnings of Russia and China and, in practice, have evolved to deploy weapons of this class in various regions of the world,” Lavrov told the news agency.

The United States has withdrew from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in 2019, under the first Trump administration, citing Russian non-compliance, but Moscow had declared that it would not deploy such weapons provided Washington does not do it.

The INF treaty, signed in 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the American president Ronald Reagan, had eliminated a whole class of weapons: nuclear missiles launched on the ground with a fork of 500 to 5,500 km (311 to 3,418 miles).

In his first public reaction to Trump’s comments on the repositioning of American submarines, the Kremlin played on Monday in remarks and said that he was not trying to enter a public spit with the American president.

“In this case, it is obvious that the American submarines are already in combat service. It is a continuous process, it is the first thing,” the journalists of the Kremlin journalist told.

“But in general, of course, we would not want to get involved in such controversy and would in no way want to comment on this,” he said.

“Of course, we think that everyone should be very, very careful with nuclear rhetoric,” he added.

The episode arrives at a delicate moment, Trump threatening to impose new sanctions on Russia and the buyers of his oil, including India and China, unless President Vladimir Putin agrees on Friday to a cease-fire of the Moscow War against Ukraine.

Putin said last week that peace talks had made a positive progress, but that Russia had burst in his war against Ukraine, not reporting any change in his position despite the imminent deadline.