In the end the Treaty on intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty) are to blame Moscow, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference in Berlin. According to Merkel, "NATO will find a common answer" in connection with the termination of the agreement, about this before and said Commonwealth Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Berlin - "the part of NATO, and it will behave in this regard as a partner in NATO," she said. The contract on destruction of rockets of average (one thousand - 5, 5 thousands of kilometers) and shorter (from five hundred to thousands of kilometers) range - Treaty between the USSR and the USA, signed 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. in October 2018 Donald trump has announced the release of the US capital from the INF Treaty, citing the fact that Moscow is not complying with its obligations. At the same time evidence that the Russian Federation 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, noting that the missile was not designed and was not tested on the range exceeding the set limit. 3 July Vladimir Putin signed the law on temporary suspension of the INF Treaty. 2 August the Agreement was terminated. <span style="color:darkgray