Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States of a new arms race, warning that the US administration would create an extremely dangerous situation if it really withdraws from the Treaty on Medium and Short-Range Missiles (INF) and refuses to extend the new agreement on limiting strategic offensive arms. "Then the situation will be extremely dangerous:
there is nothing left but an arms race," Putin said at a press conference following talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Moscow on Wednesday, October 24..
According to Putin, if the United States leaves the INF Treaty, Russia will give a mirror response, and it will do it "quickly and efficiently". He warned that if Europe places American missiles on its territory, it will put itself at risk of a "possible retaliatory strike".
DW.