MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. EU Ambassador to Russia Markus Ederer will attend Friday’s briefing organized by the Russian Foreign Ministry for European ambassadors over the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the EU mission in Moscow told TASS.

The EU mission’s press service confirmed that Ederer will attend the meeting for ambassadors at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the Russian Foreign Ministry will hold a briefing for European ambassadors on the INF Treaty.

US President Donald Trump said on October 20, 2018, that Washington will withdraw from the INF Treaty because Russia was violating the terms of the agreement.

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said after a NATO ministerial meeting on December 4 that his country would stop fulfilling its liabilities under the INF Treaty unless Russia returned to "full and verifiable" compliance with it within 60 days. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the following day that the US side had provided no evidence of Russia’s alleged violations of the treaty. He stressed that Russia is against dismantling this treaty but will have to react accordingly if the United States withdraws from it.