The Kremlin has reiterated that US President Donald Trump’s plan to quit a landmark non-proliferation pact with Russia and develop new ballistic missiles is “extremely dangerous.”
Trump said over the weekend that he planned to pull the US out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, claiming that Moscow had been violating the Cold War-era deal, which limited the proliferation of intermediate nuclear missiles.
He sent his National Security Adviser John Bolton to Russia to inform the Kremlin officials of his intention.
“It’s an extremely dangerous intention,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. “It will make the world more dangerous.”
Putin-Trump meeting ‘possible’
Peskov also said the Kremlin was ready to discuss the possibility of a summit in Washington next year between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump.
“Undoubtedly, (we are) ready,” he said after…