After the US decision to abandon the nuclear missile treaty, Russia said it wants to "lead a dialogue"

The Washington announcement that he will stop complying with the INF, signed in 1987, it's not Russia's faultbadured the spokesperson of the Russian Chancellery, Maria Zajarova, in statements to the television network Rossiya 1but obeys "the US strategy to abandon its international legal obligations in different areas".

"There is no evidence, no satellite photo, no testimony" who can prove the violation of the treaty by the Russian side, insisted the spokesperson.

"They tell us:" we have no questions to ask, they just have to destroy everything "", badured the official, who insisted that Russia "continues to agree to conduct a dialogue on the INF Treaty".

The arms control treaty of the FNI, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987, during the Cold War, forced the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenal for the first time.

At the time when it was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the The Intermediate Range Nuclear Weapons Treaty (INF) was considered historic.

This paved the way for a new era in the relations between the blocks of East and West.

(With information from AFP)