The Russian Foreign Ministry makes it clear that there are no longer any restrictions on the deployment of the ground-based Oreshnik.

Russia Prepares to Deploy
Dangerous New Oreshnik Missile
Natalya Panteleyeva / Peace In Ukraine Discussion Group

(August 4, 2025) — Zero discussion in the West of the real issues Russia has publicly announced through its foreign Ministry. I do not recall less weapon control in my entire lifetime. Where is the US leadership, and is anyone planning to address this out-of-control escalation at any time? Tariffs are not the tool for control of nuclear weapon proliferation. What is the US so busy about, happily heading into WWIII? Where is the Pentagon?!!

The Russian Foreign Ministry publishes a detailed statement regarding the reaction to the militarization, so to speak, of “Russia’s perimeter.” The Russian Foreign Ministry reports on the targeted steps of the United States to completely dismantle the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. It is noted that Russia has repeatedly appealed to Washington and NATO countries, as well as to US allies in the Asia-Pacific region, so that the moratorium on the deployment of such missiles would be in effect.

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
However, it must be noted that Russian initiatives have not been reciprocated. The United States and its allies have not only openly outlined plans to deploy American land-based intermediate-range missiles in various regions, but have also already made significant progress in the practical implementation of their intentions. The growing array of objective data indicates, in particular, the following:
testing of the basic versions of the said weapons, developed by Washington in a wide range of variations, has been largely completed or is in the final stage;
serial production of some of these systems has begun;
specialized units and commands are being formed and deployed in the relevant regions by the Pentagon to ensure their advanced deployment and use;
the necessary infrastructure is also being prepared for these tasks; cases of direct movement of missile systems of the aforementioned range to areas of joint military training activities with allies outside the national territory of the United States are becoming more frequent.

The Russian Foreign Ministry notes that since 2023, the transfer of American systems capable of ground-based INF launches to Europe has been recorded – for the so-called “testing” of these weapons during exercises that have a clear anti-Russian focus. An example is given of the situation with the exercises in Denmark, when a mobile launcher of the Mk70 standard was used.

In the Department of Sergey Lavrov:
In relation to the Asia-Pacific region, we note that under the pretext of exercises in April 2024, the Typhon medium-range missile system was delivered to the Philippines, which is still on the archipelago. The same system was used in July of this year in Australia for live firing during the Talisman Sabre 2025 multilateral training events.
As part of these same exercises, the US military carried out the first overseas deployment of the Dark Eagle medium-range hypersonic system, openly stating that this was being done “for the purpose of power projection,” and emphasizing the suitability of such systems for rapid redeployment.

It was noted that during the Talisman Sabre 2025 maneuvers, the Australian military launched an American PrSM missile from the American HIMARS complex, which was tested by the Pentagon back in 2021 at a range of over 500 km and, accordingly, belongs to the class of land-based INF. Prior to this, such missiles were launched by US Army units from the territory of Palau during firings carried out in the summer of 2024 from a promising autonomous platform based on the same HIMARS system.

Russian Foreign Ministry:
The aforementioned tests and training launches of the PrSM missile, subsequent modifications of which are planned to be tested at a range of over 1000 km, essentially allow us to consider each combat unit of the M142 Hymars complex and the similar M270 MLRS tracked system as a ground-based INF launcher. At the same time, American weapons of the aforementioned types have already been deployed in significant quantities and continue to be deployed in many countries around the world, including replenishing the arsenals of US allies and partners, including Ukraine, which uses these systems in combat operations against the Russian Federation.
Thus, there are growing facts of the appearance in various regions, including those of particular importance to the Russian Federation from the point of view of national security, of American-made weapons, the characteristics of which allow them to be classified as ground-based medium- and shorter-range missile systems.

An important additional factor is the stated intention by individual US allies to acquire land-based INF missiles and/or develop their own missiles with a launch range of 500 to 5,500 km.

The Foreign Ministry notes that all these steps by the so-called “collective West” lead to the formation and build-up of destabilizing missile potentials in regions adjacent to the Russian Federation, creating a direct threat to Russia’s security, and of a strategic nature.

Russian Foreign Ministry:
As has been consistently stated on our part, such a scenario will require our country to take compensatory military-technical measures in order to counter newly emerging threats and maintain strategic balance. Since our repeated warnings on this matter have been ignored and the situation is developing along the path of the actual deployment of American-made land-based INF missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to declare that our country no longer considers itself bound by the corresponding previously adopted self-restrictions.

The agency writes that decisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by the leadership of the Russian Federation based on an interdepartmental analysis of the scale of deployment of American and other Western medium- and shorter-range land-based missiles, as well as the general development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability.

In other words, our country now determines for itself where, when and in what quantities to deploy medium- and shorter-range land-based missiles, including, for example, the Oreshnik complex, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Let us recall that such weapons may appear, for example, on the territory of Belarus. No one can forbid an agreement on the deployment of such weapons, for example, in the DPRK or one of the Central American countries….