Zakharova called on Japan to reconsider the decision on the deployment of Typhons
Russia considers the possible deployment of the Typhon ground-based missile system at the US base in Japan to be a destabilizing step. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, her words were published on August 29 on the ministry's official website.
She commented on the information in the foreign media that during the Japanese-American Resolute Dragon 25 exercises scheduled for September 11-25, a battery of the Typhon ground complex is planned to be deployed at the Iwakuni base of the US Armed Forces.
"The formation and build-up of destabilizing missile capabilities in the regions adjacent to Russia poses a direct threat to the security of our country, and of a strategic order. Such a development would have significant detrimental consequences for regional and global stability, including dangerously fueling tensions between the nuclear powers," the diplomat said.
Zakharova added that Japan had been repeatedly warned about the unacceptability of provocative military activity near the Russian borders in the Far East, and therefore called for a review of the decision on the deployment of Typhons.
"Otherwise, we will proceed from the fact that all responsibility for the further degradation of the situation in the region lies with the Japanese side," Zakharova concluded.
Earlier, on August 10, the Foreign Ministry pointed out Japan's refusal to accept the outcome of the settlement of the Kuril Islands issue. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry called such rhetoric unacceptable and stressed that the Kuril Islands are part of the Russian Federation after the transition to the USSR legally under the post-war agreements of the allied powers and the UN Charter.
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