Russia and Turkey are in contact with a possible transfer by Ankara from Russian missile defence systems to an allied country in Moscow, today admitted the Russian Presidency (Kremlin).
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30/09/2026
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O chief of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, stated on Saturday that Moscow could eventually authorize the resale of S-400 systems to a country “responsible for friendly relations” with Russia, without further details.
“This theme is on the agenda,” said the spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, during the daily press conference.
“ Appropriate work is ongoing and appropriate contacts are being made,” he added, quoted by the French agency AFP.
Turkey, a NATO country, acquired anti-aircraft defense systems in 2017 at a time of tension in relations between Washington and Ankara.
They were never activated for purposes other than testing, according to AFP.
The purchase cost Turkey the exclusion of the U.S. F-35 fighter program in 2019, depriving it of already paid devices, and subjecting the United States sanctions the following year.
The delivery of F110 engines to Turkish KAAN fighter has also been stopped.
Ankara has long sought to resolve the dispute over the F-35s and the S-400 systems, but it needs Russia's consent to resell Russian arms for not having a re-export permit.