President Donald Trump announced on 1 February that he is formally withdrawing the United States from the 1987 US-Soviet Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Trump said the US would "suspend its obligations" under the INF Treaty on 2 February by giving the required six months' notice of intent to leave. He added, however, that if "Russia comes back into compliance by destroying all of its violating missiles, launchers, and associated equipment" by August, the US might not go ahead with the withdrawal.
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