Russia blasts Donald Trump’s ‘dangerous’ bid to dump cold war-era nuke treaty

Moscow on Sunday warned US President Donald Trump that his plan to ditch a cold war-era nuclear weapons treaty with Russia was a dangerous step.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said this “would be a very dangerous step” and accused the US of risking international condemnation in a bid for “total supremacy” in the military sphere.

He insisted that Moscow observed “in the strictest way” the three-decade-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as the INF, while accusing Washington of “flagrant violations.”

The treaty was signed in 1987 by the then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

But Trump on Saturday claimed Russia had long violated it.