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US presented no proof Russia is in breach of INF treaty, Security Council chief says

06 August 2019 16:39 (UTC +04:00)

Washington has not presented to Moscow a single piece of evidence that might prove Russia is in breach of the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty and at the same time refused to discuss its own violations, Russian Security Council Secretary c told Russian mass media in an interview, APA reports citing TASS.

"I am unable to mention a single instance [of a violation] or piece of evidence they [the US] presented to us. There has been nothing of the sort," Patrushev said when asked if the United States had presented proof of Moscow’s violations of the treaty.

"We held meetings with our US counterparts. I met with [US presidential national security adviser John] Bolton. Russia’s president [Vladimir Putin] received him, too. We discussed that but received no evidence," Patrushev said. In his opinion, Washington "needed a pretext for pulling out from the treaty, and they found such a pretext for themselves and their partners."