The deployment of the US Typhon missile system in Japan is not intended to provoke Russia.
This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country News week.
“Bilateral military exercises are aimed at improving the “mobile deployment capabilities” of similar American missiles and are not aimed at any specific country or region,” the publication reported from a representative of the foreign policy ministry.
On August 29, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow considers the deployment of the US Typhon missile system in Japan to be destabilizing.
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According to this diplomat, the strengthening of missile capabilities in areas bordering Russia poses a direct threat to the country's security. She also emphasized that such actions would have “adverse consequences for regional and global stability.”
