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Russia pledged a response to a Sunday test of a U.S. ground-based cruise missile the Pentagon conducted two weeks after the expiration of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in early August.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said, following a Helsinki meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, the speed of which the U.S. tested a modified Tomahawk Land Attack Missile indicated the Defense Department had been working on the system long before the U.S. declared it would withdraw from the INF treaty.
For Russia it means, “the emergence of new threats,” Putin said
