The Kremlin: Washington tested a banned missile that violated the missile treaty

Moscow-Sana

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the test of the United States missile banned under the Treaty on the disposal of medium and short-range missiles constitutes a violation of the agreement and evidence of an earlier intention to cancel it.

"Today I cannot comment on this matter from a technical point of view, but we have repeatedly stated that the United States has been preparing for a long time to violate the provisions of the Intermediate and Short-Range Missile Treaty and yesterday's testing clearly confirms that the treaty has Actually breached at the initiative of the United States. ”

Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, earlier today expressed Moscow's concern about the American test and said: “The test of missiles that were previously banned several months after Washington left the treaty indicates that it was working to develop these missiles For a long time".