The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed Moscow's readiness to discuss mutual inspections with the United States in order to save the medium-term nuclear power treaty.
The United States accuses Russia of violating the Cold War treaty and threatens to withdraw from it.
Russian Foreign Ministry official Vladimir Jeremakov said on Friday that Moscow "totally rejects any unilateral inspections."
US President Donald Trump announced last October that the United States would withdraw from the treaty and build its nuclear stockpile "so that people will return to their senses."
The treaty, signed by former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, ended an arms race in Europe that resulted in the deployment of Moscow's S-20 nuclear missiles targeting Western European capitals.
Earlier in December, the United States gave Russia a 60-day deadline to prove its innocence over what Washington considers a violation of the treaty, saying it would have to start a six-month withdrawal if there was no change.
Russia denies developing any ground-launched medium-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and hitting European cities in a short time.
