The US plans to withdraw from the Treaty on open skies lower the threshold of use of nuclear weapons and increase risks of multiples for the whole world, predicts Secretary of the security Council Nikolai Patrushev. in his vision, these Plans fall in line with the US withdrawal from the Treaty on intermediate and shorter-range missiles and anti-ballistic missile Treaty, and the reluctance of the capital of the United States to ratify the Treaty on comprehensive ban of nuclear tests and to work on the extension of start-III. "All this negatively affects the predictability of the military-strategic situation, and among them lowering the threshold of use of nuclear weapons and, accordingly, the multiples increases the risks for all humanity," - said Patrushev in the publication "Safety of Russia in the modern world" in " the Russian newspaper ". before the head of the chamber authorized the U.S. Congress in international Affairs Eliot Engel said concerned about reports of possible plans of the capital of the United States to withdraw from the Treaty on open skies. Because of this, He sent a letter of protest to the White house in the name of the presidential adviser on national security. in the Russian defense Ministry revealed that American intelligence officers began to accuse Moscow of violating the Treaty to prevent observation flights over its territory. The official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, for their part, pointed out that as long as no statements on this issue were reported. The Treaty on open skies was signed in 1992 to strengthen confidence in the European Union after the cold war. It operates since 2002 and provides the opportunity to participating countries to collect data on military forces and activities of one another. <span style="color:darkgray