One of the reasons for US withdrawal from the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear forces (INF) was the presence of a large number of such missiles from China, said the White house adviser on state security John Bolton. According to Bolton, from the perspective of U.S. authorities, When negotiable possible deployment of missiles in the region the story is only about the protection of the U.S. military on the Japanese Islands and South Korea and allies. before the Secretary of defense mark Esper for the next day after the termination of the INF Treaty said in favour of the rapid deployment of missiles medium-range ground placement in Asia. The Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range terminated on 2 August. 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. at the beginning of this year, the head of the United States Donald trump announced the sole withdrawal from the Treaty. According to his statement, Moscow as if it were not in compliance with its obligations under the agreement. However, no evidence of this was provided. foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the capital of Russia there are serious questions to Washington concerning the implementation of the Treaty by the Americans themselves. 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