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Merkel: Germany, like US, believes Russia breached INF treaty

Germany, like the United States, believes that Russia has breached the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Tuesday, 2nd April 2019

Germany, like the United States, believes that Russia has breached the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said Washington will withdraw from the 1987 INF treaty, this summer unless Moscow ends its alleged violations - an announcement that Merkel said she understood. Russia denies violating the INF treaty.