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The United States and Germany have announced episodic deployments of longer-range US missiles to Germany in 2026.
By Ivan Nechepurenko and Paul Sonne
Russia is preparing military countermeasures in reaction to the planned US deployment of longer-range land-based missiles in Germany, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that the US resolution is “destructive to regional security and strategic stability. “
“Without nerves or emotions, we will first of all expand the army’s reaction to this new game,” said Deputy Minister Sergei A. Ryabkov to the Russian news agency Interfax.
In a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ryabkov said Moscow was waiting for the resolution and had begun preparing “compensatory countermeasures” in advance.
In a joint statement, the United States and Germany said Washington would begin “episodic deployments” of missiles in Germany in 2026, adding that those have a “significantly greater range” than those recently deployed across the country. Europe.
Such periodic deployments would pave the way for “sustainable parking of those functions in the future. “Eventually, the guns will come with SM-6 missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles and hypersonic progression guns, he said.
“What we are deploying in Germany is a defensive capability like many other defensive capabilities we have deployed within the alliance, over decades,” Jake Sullivan, the Alliance’s national security adviser, told reporters Thursday. White House, in reference to the 32 NATO countries. Array “So it is clear that further Russian saber-rattling will not deter us from doing what we believe is to keep the alliance as strong as possible. »
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