Moscow (CNN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to prepare a "symmetrical response" to a recent US test of a cruise missile, the Kremlin said in a statement Friday.

During a meeting of his security council, Putin said he instructed his government to "analyze the level of threat posed by the aforementioned actions of the United States toward our country and take comprehensive measures to prepare a symmetrical response."

The Pentagon announced Monday that the US conducted a flight test of a conventional ground-launched cruise missile off the western coast of the US on Sunday. The missile hit its target after more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) of flight, the Pentagon said.

The test would have been previously banned under the now-defunct Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Officials stressed that the missile is designed to carry a conventional payload, not a nuclear one.

The US withdrew from the INF Treaty with Moscow earlier this month after years of accusing Russia of violating the treaty via its deployment of its nuclear-capable SSC-8 missile. The arms control pact had limited the development of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.

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