"They offered the United States and other NATO countries to weigh the possibility of declaring the same moratorium on the deployment of medium and shorter range as ours, as the moratorium that was announced by Vladimir Putin," he said in an interview with TASS.

As Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted, Russia will not deploy medium-range or shorter-range missiles in any region of the world until the United States begins to do this.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s non-proliferation and arms control department, Vladimir Yermakov, said that Moscow was ready to discuss ways to stabilize the situation with Washington after the end of the INF Treaty based on mutual transparency measures with Washington.

Expert Vladimir Prokhvatilov in a conversation with NSN commented on the situation around the agreement.