{"id":16061,"date":"2021-01-15T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/15\/russia-follows-us-to-withdraw-from-open-skies-treaty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:32:35","slug":"russia-follows-us-to-withdraw-from-open-skies-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2021\/01\/15\/russia-follows-us-to-withdraw-from-open-skies-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia follows US to withdraw from Open Skies Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW \u2014 Russia said Friday it will withdraw from an international treaty allowing observation flights over military facilities following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2020\/11\/25\/trump-left-the-open-skies-treaty-but-dont-write-it-off-yet\/\" target=_blank>U.S. exit from the pact<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the U.S. withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty last year \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/05\/26\/russia-says-us-leaving-open-skies-treaty-will-hurt-security\/\" target=_blank>significantly upended the balance of interests<\/a> of signatory states,\u201d adding that Moscow\u2019s proposals to keep the treaty alive after the U.S. exit have been cold-shouldered by Washington\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry said Russia is now launching the relevant procedural moves to withdraw from the pact \u201cdue to the lack of progress in removing the obstacles for the treaty\u2019s functioning in the new conditions.\u201d The Russian parliament, which ratified the treaty in 2001, will now have to vote to leave it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treaty was intended to build trust between Russia and the West by allowing the accord\u2019s more than three dozen signatories to conduct reconnaissance flights over each other\u2019s territories to collect information about military forces and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President Donald Trump declared Washington\u2019s intention to pull out of the Open Skies Treaty in May, arguing that Russian violations made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/11\/01\/why-the-open-skies-treaty-is-a-win-for-us-security\/\" target=_blank>untenable<\/a> for the United States to remain a party. The U.S. completed its withdrawal from the pact in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia denied breaching the treaty, which came into force in 2002. The European Union has urged the U.S. to reconsider and called on Russia to stay in the pact and lift flight restrictions, notably over its westernmost Kaliningrad region, which lies between NATO allies Lithuania and Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has argued that the limits on flights over Kaliningrad, which hosts sizable military forces, are permissible under the treaty\u2019s terms, noting that the U.S. has imposed more sweeping restrictions on observation flights over Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a condition for staying in the pact after the U.S. pullout, Moscow sought guarantees from NATO allies that they wouldn\u2019t transfer the data collected during their observation flights over Russia to the United States, but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonid Slutsky, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of the Russian parliament, said in televised remarks Friday that Russia could review its decision to withdraw if the U.S. decides to return to the pact, but acknowledged that the prospect looks \u201cutopian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow has warned that the U.S. withdrawal will erode global security by making it more difficult for governments to interpret the intentions of other nations, particularly amid Russia-West tensions after the Russian annexation of Ukraine\u2019s Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demise of the Open Skies Treaty follows the U.S. and Russian withdrawal in 2019 from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The INF Treaty, which was signed in 1987 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,410 miles), weapons seen as particularly destabilizing because of the shorter time they take to reach targets compared with intercontinental ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only U.S.-Russian arms control pact still standing is the New START nuclear agreement that expires in three weeks. 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