NATO will provide coordinated response if Russia will not return to compliance with the Treaty on intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty) until August 2, said Commonwealth Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg said that NATO has a number of response options. For example, it concerns the strengthening missile defense and conventional military power. first NATO Secretary General, laid the responsibility for the preservation of the INF Treaty by the Russian Federation, urging Moscow to use the "last chance" to salvage the Contract. The same call was voiced by the European Union. The foreign Ministry in response to the appeal of Brussels stressed that Brussels operates under the pressure of the US capital, and calls the EU facing the wrong address. 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. USA destroyed missiles "Pershing" method of 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, the head of the United States 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 had violated the agreement, 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 July Vladimir Putin signed the law on temporary suspension of the INF Treaty. <span style="color:darkgray