Reports about it RIA News.
“We are not interested in escalating tensions,” he said during a speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
It is noted that in this way he commented on the upcoming US withdrawal from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF).
"Our response (to the exit of the USA. - RT ) is built in such a way as not to drag Russia into an expensive arms race," he added.
Earlier, Antonov told RT that there are a large number of world problems that both the Russian and the American sides could solve by joint efforts.