The Hill:
Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to back President Vladimir Putin’s exit from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the Associated Press reported.
Putin signed an executive order exiting the nuclear arms deal in March, and Tuesday’s overwhelming vote in the the State Duma confirmed that decree.
Russia’s exit from the 1987 arms treaty follows the U.S.’s notice on Feb. 1 that it would stop complying with the treaty in six months.
