President Putin: Moscow needs to respond appropriately to new challenges related to INF
The Russian President stressed: Moscow needs to respond appropriately to new challenges related to the US's production of missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).
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| US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Osaka, Japan on June 28. Photo: THX/TTXVN |
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on August 21 that his country would develop medium- and short-range missile systems, but would not deploy them before the United States did so.
Mr. Putin pledged that Russia's national security will be firmly guaranteed in the context of new missiles being built in the US.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Helsinki with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto, the Russian President stressed that Moscow needs to respond appropriately to new challenges related to the US's production of missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).
President Putin said that Washington developed this type of missile long before announcing its withdrawal from the INF. Moscow expressed disappointment at the US testing a missile banned under the INF, as this would make the situation in the world more tense.
