WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump's announcement on Sunday of his intention to pull out of the country's long-term nuclear arms control treaty with Russia since the Cold War provoked Moscow's reluctance to respond to Trump, saying he was dreaming of a unipolar world.
Russia said on Sunday that the United States "dreams" of being the world's only dominant power by its decision to withdraw from a nuclear arms treaty linking Washington and Moscow.
"The main motive is to dream of a unipolar world," said the source, quoted by state news agency RIA Novosti.
The statement came shortly after US President Donald Trump announced that Washington would withdraw from its "Mid-Range Nuclear Treaty" with Moscow in 1987, accusing Russia of "violating the treaty" for many years.
The Russian source stressed that Moscow "has repeatedly denounced publicly the course of US policy towards the abolition of the nuclear agreement."
The source confirmed that Washington "approached this step over many years through the destruction of the foundations of the agreement in deliberate and deliberate steps."
"This decision falls within the framework of the American policy to withdraw from these international legal agreements which place equal responsibilities on them and on their partners and undermines their own concept of their exceptional status," the Russian source said.
For his part, Russian Senator Alexei Bushkov said in a tweet on Twitter that Trump's decision to withdraw from the treaty is "the second blow to the system of strategic stability in the world," recalling that the first blow was the withdrawal of Washington from the "Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty" in 2001.
"Once again, the United States is the party that initiated the withdrawal from the treaty," Bushkov said.
The treaty, which eliminated a full range of missiles ranging from 500 to 5,000 km, put an end to a crisis in the 1980s over the Soviet Union's deployment of SS-20s, which targeted Western European capitals.
