The Trump administration announced Friday plans to kill a the historic deal that President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed in 1987. At the time, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty signified that the era of a nuclear arms race had ended.

According to the Trump administration, the Kremlin violated the agreement however, the Russian government denounced the accusations.

“The denunciation of the INF treaty confirms that the U.S. has embarked on destroying all international agreements that do not suit them for one reason or another,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. “This leads to the actual dismantling of the existing arms control system.”

The U.S. cancelled the treaty citing non compliance.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement,”Russia failed to return to full and verified compliance through the destruction of its noncompliant missile system.”

The US and NATO agree: Russia violated the INF, and leaving the agreement is in the best interests of our collective security. Treaties are worthless unless respected by all signatories. https://t.co/tqh1zGz9Sl — Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) August 2, 2019

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