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| Putin orders ‘exhaustive’ response to US missile test, says it shows Washington worked to breach INF | |
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| The Russian Armed Forces will scrutinize a recent cruise missile test, conducted by the US after ditching the landmark INF Treaty, and examine reciprocal measures. However, Moscow says it is not aiming for an arms race. | |
| President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Defense Ministry and other bodies to “study the level of threat posed by these US actions and take exhaustive measures to prepare a symmetrical response.” | |
| Putin was speaking just days after the US military test-fired a ground version of Tomahawk cruise missile that travelled about 500km (310 miles) before hitting a mock target. | |
| The weapon, fired from a universal Mk-41 launch system in California, was banned under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty which the US formally withdrew from on August 2. | |
| Washington “vehemently denied the possibility of a sea-based Tomahawk missile being fired from the ground-based Mk-41,” Putin said. Now, one cannot “deny” a breach of the treaty, he added. | |
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