Russia said on Monday that it would not honor the preventive endowment it imposed on the deployment of medium -based nuclear missiles, blame the United States and NATO planning to mediate similar weapons in Europe, Asia and the Pacific.

Russian Foreign Ministry Washington accused the rising tensions by testing, producing and transporting systems by simply banning the medium nuclear power treaty (INF).

Moscow said the publishing operations, including the recent American missile activity in Denmark, the Philippines and Australia, posed a “direct threat” to Russian security. The Kremlin warned that the “technical military” would take steps in response to restore what he calls a strategic balance.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Kermlin in Moscow, Russia.

Associated Press