"The United States arrogantly ignored warnings from Russia and China," Russia's veteran foreign minister told state media.

Russia will scrap a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter range nuclear-capable missiles because the United States has deployed such weapons in various regions around the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Russia will lift its moratorium on deploying medium- and short-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Source: Radio Liberty, citing Lavrov in an interview with Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti Details: Lavrov attributed this decision to the deployment of similar weapons by the United States.

The INF Treaty required both US and Russia to eliminate all nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles.