Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
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Russia’s Response to U.S. Defense System in Poland, Czechia Won’t Be Hysterical
Moscow will respond without hysterics to stationing elements of the U.S. missile defense system in Czechia and Poland, said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
”The response will be, as the president repeatedly said, asymmetrical, based on technologies that our military and industrial complex, science can develop,” Lavrov pointed out, adding Russia “cannot afford to get involved in the arms race once again.”
“This topic is regularly mentioned in Russia’s-American dialogue at the highest, at the high level, at the level of military departments,” the foreign minister specified.
“We need no mere talking that we aren’t enemies any longer and so we don’t have to limit each other there. It is the wrong approach,” Lavrov emphasized.
Earlier, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin made clear that Russia will asymmetrically respond to stationing elements of the U.S. missile defense system in Poland and Czechia. “To make everyone understand that, yes, the antiballistic missile system does exist, but it makes no sense against Russia, as it has the weapon pulling through it,” Putin said when addressing the Munich security conference.
Later, Russia’s General Staff Chief Yury Baluevsky spoke about the possible withdrawal from the treaty on mid-/short-range missiles. That treaty bans Russia and the United States from buying, producing and developing ballistic missiles with the maximum flight range of 500 kilometers to 5,000 kilometers.
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