The United States has not provided any objective data on Russia’s alleged trials of a ground-based cruise missile with a range exceeding the level permitted by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.
"We reject any speculations that we allegedly violated this treaty," TASS cited him as saying.
"In order to begin a substantive probe into the issue raised by the US side, the United States was required to provide information on three key aspects: first of all, to clearly designate the missile that causes suspicions, secondly, to indicate the specific test launches, during which, in the U.S. opinion, our commitments on the INF Treaty were breached, and, thirdly, and this is the most important thing, to present objective data, on the basis of which a conclusion was made that the range of the missile’s flight during the trials exceeded the range under the treaty," the diplomat said.
"The Americans have failed to provide such data up to now," Ryabkov added.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on October 20 that his country would quit the INF Treaty because Russia was allegedly in breach of that agreement.
