Russia to Take ‘Tit-for-Tat Measures’ if US Deploys Missiles in Germany: Putin

Published on July 29, 2024

Russia will lift its moratorium on the deployment of medium-range missiles if the United States follows through on a plan to station long-range missiles in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. “If the United States carries through [with] these plans, we will consider ourselves to be free from our unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate-and shorter-range strike weapons,” Mr. Putin said on July 28, according to Russian state-owned news agency TASS. Addressing naval cadets in St. Petersburg, Mr. Putin said U.S. missiles deployed in Germany would be able to strike Russian “state and military command facilities, administrative-industrial centers, and defense infrastructure.”...

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