MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. The United States has not provided any objective data on Russia’s alleged trials of a ground-based cruise missile with a range exceeding the level permitted by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday.

"We reject any speculations that we allegedly violated this treaty," the high-ranking diplomat said at a special news briefing devoted to the INF Treaty.

"In order to begin a substantive probe into the issue raised by the US side, the United States was required to provide information on three key aspects: first of all, to clearly designate the missile that causes suspicions, secondly, to indicate the specific test launches, during which, in the US opinion, our commitments on the INF Treaty were breached, and, thirdly, and this is the most important thing, to present objective data, on the basis of which a conclusion was made that the range of the missile’s flight during the trials exceeded the range under the treaty," the diplomat said.

"The Americans have failed to provide such data up to now," Ryabkov said.

US President Donald Trump said on October 20 that his country would quit the INF Treaty because Russia was allegedly in breach of that agreement. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov described this as a dangerous move. Washington was also criticized in Berlin and Beijing. In the meantime, London came out in support of the United States and NATO placed the responsibility for Trump’s decision on Russia, because in its opinion Moscow had apparently violated the treaty.

The INF Treaty was signed on December 8, 1987 and took effect on June 1, 1988. It outlawed deployed and non-deployed intermediate range (1,000-5,000 kilometers) and shorter range (500-1,000 kilometers) ground-based missiles.

In recent years, Washington has repeatedly alleged Russia was in breach of the agreement. Moscow emphatically dismissed the charges and countered them with its own claims over the United States’ non-compliance.