Both Russia and the U.S. have accused the other of violating the Cold War-era pact that banned ground-launched nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges from 310 miles to 3,417 miles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson has blamed the U.S. for collapsing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing a recent test of an American nuclear-capable missile as evidence.
This forced the U.S. and Soviet Union foes to remove some 2,700 short- and medium-range missiles from the battlefield, many of which were deployed along the Iron Curtain. Peskov told journalists,"We've said more than once that the United States has been making preparations for violating the INF Treaty. This clearly confirms that the treaty was ruined at the initiative of the United States."
American concerns centered on the SSC-8 ground-launched cruise missile, which the U.S. said had a range in the bracket prohibited by the INF Treaty. Russia dismissed American assertions and refused to destroy its SSC-8 systems. In a tweet after their meeting, Trump noted he had discussed the INF Treaty with Lavrov, among several other matters.—passed by the House this week—blocks the"procurement and deployment of new ground launched INF-range missiles in fiscal year 2020 and requires information on the analysis of alternatives to such new missiles, basing options and foreign countries consulted, including NATO.
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