Trump says US will pull out of nuclear deal with Russia
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President Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.
Talking to reporters, Trump said Russia had "violated" the 1987 intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty.
The deal banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km.
Trump said the US would not let Russia "go out and do weapons while we're not allowed to.
The President said he don't understand why President Obama didn't negotiate or pull out and Russians have been violating it for many years."
A Russian Foreign Ministry source said the US move was motivated by a "dream of a unipolar world" where it is the only global superpower.