Russia said on Monday it would be forced to respond in kind to restore the military balance with the US if President Donald Trump carried through on a threat to quit a landmark nuclear arms treaty and began developing new missiles.
But Russia also signalled it may be willing to give some ground, with a senior Kremlin official telling Trump’s national security advisor that Russia was ready to address US concerns about how the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was being implemented.
Trump drew a warning of “military-technical” retaliation from Moscow after saying on Saturday that Washington would withdraw