TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry has demonstrated to foreign military attaches and Russian and foreign media the Iskander-M system armed with four 9M729 missiles and the missile’s ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would not let the United States inspect a new nuclear-capable cruise missile at the heart of a dispute between Washington and Moscow that risks ...

MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. The United States believes that Russia tested its 9M729 cruise missile for a range of over 500 km, the US embassy’s spokesperson Andrea Kalan told TASS on Thursday ...

The US administration then stated that Russia violated the treaty by deploying the 9M729 missile system and announced its withdrawal. The Russian Foreign Ministry officially declared the treaty ...

The withdrawal from the INF, on the basis of what are still unexplained violations of the treaty relating to Russia’s development of the SSC-8 (9M729) cruise missile, was particularly egregious.

The State Department has determined since 2014 that Russia is in violation of the treaty, via the 9M729 ground-launched cruise missile. Tests of the noncompliant missile go back to 2008 ...

Washington has long accused Russia of flouting the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), alleging that a new Russian missile, the Novator 9M729, called the SSC-8 by NATO ...

that Moscow has a new medium-range missile in its inventory - the Novator 9M729 - known to Nato as the SSC-8. This would enable Russia to launch a nuclear strike at Nato countries at very short ...