“With the collapse of the INF Treaty, in the treaty plan in the field of nuclear missile disarmament, we are rolling back 30 years ago,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to Rozhkov, the situation is further complicated by the ambiguity regarding the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START).

"I would not want him to suffer the sad fate of the INF Treaty," he emphasized.

Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, in an interview with RT, called the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty as an “irresponsible step” in terms of global and regional security.

Member of the Federation Council, Franz Klintsevich, in an interview with FAN, assessed the situation around the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF).