Russia has finalized its withdrawal from a significant security agreement from the Cold War era, blaming the US and its allies for the breakdown of the treaty, according to the Foreign Ministry.
The event occurred following the approval of a bill by President Vladimir Putin that disapproved of the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe by both houses of the Russian parliament. Putin gave it his signature in May of this year.
The treaty was signed in November 1990 but wasn’t ratified in its entirety until two years later. Its goal was to prevent Cold War rivals from amassing forces at or near their shared borders. Among the many significant treaties between the US and Russia during the Cold War that have recently expired is this one.
In 2007, Russia withdrew from the agreement, and in 2015, it declared its intention to leave it entirely.
Moscow dispatched tens of thousands of troops into neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022. Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary are also neighbours and are all members of NATO. The ministry announced on Tuesday that the formal withdrawal from the treaty had been completed, but it did not specify what that meant. It attributed the withdrawal and the West’s purportedly “destructive position” on the treaty to the United States and its allies.
“We left the door open for a dialogue on ways to restore the viability of conventional arms control in Europe,” said the statement. “However, our opponents did not take advantage of this opportunity.”
It went on to say that “even the formal preservation” of the treaty has become “unacceptable from the point of view of Russia’s fundamental security interests,” pointing to recent NATO expansion and developments in Ukraine.
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