“All this negatively affects the predictability of the military-strategic situation, including leading to a lower threshold for the use of nuclear weapons and, accordingly, multiply increases the risks for all of humanity,” Patrushev told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
He emphasized that at the same time, calling Russia a threat to the United States, the White House prefers to forget that "the US military budget, which in 2019 amounted to about $ 716 billion, is more than 15 times higher than the Russian one."
At the end of October, The Wall Street Journal, citing two sources, wrote that US President Donald Trump signed a document "testifying to his intention to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty."
In turn, the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said that the Russian side does not yet have Washington's official confirmation of withdrawal from this treaty.