. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg laid the responsibility for the preservation of the Contract on destruction of rockets of average and smaller range in the Russian Federation. With such a statement he expressed in a newspaper column on the Internet representation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. in the publication he tried to convince the Russian Federation to use the "last chance" to salvage the Contract. "otherwise, it will bear sole responsibility," he said. While Stoltenberg added that in the event of termination of the Agreement, the whole world will become more stable. first Secretary General of NATO has made the initiative of Russia to eliminate the missiles 9п°729 in a short time. According to his statement, it would help to "save" the INF Treaty. The USSR and the USA signed a Treaty to destroy intermediate (one to five and a half thousand kilometers) and lower (from five hundred to thousands of kilometers) range in 1987. The parties undertook to eliminate all the complexes and ballistic missiles With wings terrestrial host With the specified range and not produce, not to test and not to deploy them in the future. The Soviet Union dismantled its missile by explosion (total destruction of rockets), While 72 IRBM "pioneer" was eliminated by the method of the start With field positions. The elimination of U.S. missiles "Pershing" was conducted by burning With the conservation of the compartments of the control system that was used in the production of target missiles of average range. in October 2018 Donald trump has announced the release of the US capital from the INF Treaty, citing the fact that Moscow is as if it were not in compliance with its obligations. While evidence that the Russian Federation has violated the Treaty, the American side has not provided. later, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave Moscow two months to "go back to the execution" of the Contract. For example, the U.S. insisted that Russia refused from the rocket 9п°729 (SSC-8), a range which, as argued in the capital of the United States, violates the INF Treaty. In the Russian capital, these accusations are called unfounded. in February, Russia announced the temporary suspension of compliance with its obligations under the contract in response to similar US actions. in early July, Vladimir Putin signed the law on temporary suspension of the INF Treaty. <span style="color:darkgray