Washington considers the possible introduction of a moratorium on the deployment in Europe of intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear forces (INF), said the special representative of the President of the United States Donald trump on arms control Marshall Billingsley.
This statement was commented by the Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on information policy Alexei Pushkov. In his Twitter Russian Senator wrote that this result was expected, because that is why Washington and walked out of the INF Treaty. “The Europeans played along with US and now once again become a risk to their hostages, as during the missile crisis of the 1980s”, – said Russian Senator.
Recall that the second of August terminated the Agreement on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range. About a unilateral exit from the Washington announced back in February, accusing Moscow of violating the rules of the Treaty. Russia denied the allegations, and in early July, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law suspending Russia’s actions the INF Treaty.
As stated by the special representative of the trump, the deployment of nuclear medium-range missiles in Europe, the US moratorium will not. This was to be expected: why the United States withdrew from the INF Treaty. The Europeans played along with US and now once again become a risk to their hostages, as during the missile crisis of the 1980s.
