“Decisions on the deployment of such systems were not made ... The United States did not ask any countries to deploy the systems,” TASS quoted him as saying.
According to Carver, if such decisions are to be made in the future, then this will happen in close consultation with both US allies and partners, and with the US military command.
Thus, he commented on media reports about consultations between Washington and Tokyo on the deployment of medium-range missiles.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu did not rule out that the United States could deploy its strike weapons, which had previously been banned by the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Region (APR).
On August 2, the INF Treaty was officially discontinued at the initiative of the United States.