Jens Stoltenberg : There will be no rash moves by the alliance and will not mirror what Russia does

NATO has agreed ways to deter Russia from launching a new medium-range missile capable of a nuclear strike on Europe, - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said a news conference.

According to “Reuters”, the U.S.-led alliance says Russia has breached the terms of the 1987 treaty, which bans land-based, medium-range missiles in Europe, and has developed the nuclear-capable Novator 9M729, which is also known as the SSC-8.

“Russia bears sole responsibility for the demise of the treaty,” the NATO allies said, referring to the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) that kept nuclear weapons out of Europe and avoided short-notice attacks.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a news conference there would be no rash moves by the alliance and would not mirror what Russia does. “We don’t want a new arms race,” Stoltenberg said.

The United States formally withdrew from a Cold War-era nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty and had no plans to come into compliance with it.