New Delhi, July 19 -- MOSCOW - Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko formally warned Tokyo on Sunday that hosting US Typhon intermediate-range missile systems at Japan's Kanoya air base on Kyushu island represents a direct threat to Russia's Far Eastern borders, signaling Moscow's extension of its missile deployment red-line framework from Europe into the Indo-Pacific theater.

"We see Tokyo's provision of its territory for the deployment of US intermediate-range and shorter-range missile systems as a step that has a serious negative impact on the stability and security of the Asia-Pacific region and poses a direct threat to Russia's Far Eastern borders," Rudenko said in a statement carried by TASS. The language mirrors the form...