Moscow hopes that common sense will prevail in the White House and American politicians will not make hasty decisions, especially when it comes to international security.. So the head of the department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on non-proliferation and arms control Vladimir Yermakov commented on the statement of US President Donald Trump about his intention to withdraw from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. “We presume that the United States will not take such ill-considered steps and that in the end they will soberly assess the real situation in the world,” the diplomat said.

At the same time, he stressed that Moscow is ready to respond to any development of events accordingly, writes RIA Novosti.

"Anyone who does not want to hear how Sergei Lavrov explains all this in great detail will have to listen to what Sergei Shoigu will explain to them," the Foreign Ministry spokesman hinted at a possible course of events.. Earlier, Trump said that Moscow is violating the INF Treaty, so Washington intends to unilaterally break the agreement. In the Russian Federation, they denied accusations, but indicated that they regard the active deployment of American weapons in European countries as a violation of the INF..