PUTIN’S COMMENTS TO RUSSIA’S SECURITY COUNCIL RE WASHINGTON’S RECENT TEST OF MISSILE THAT VIOLATED INF TREATY; RUSSIA’S DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO UN SAYS US STARTING “UNCONTROLLED ARMS RACE”; SCOTT RITTER EXPLAINS HOW US INTEL COMMUNITY & MSM GOT RECENT EXPLOSION IN NORTHERN RUSSIA WRONG
Natylie’s Place
August 29, 2019
By Natalie S. Baldwin
Below is the video with English subtitles of Putin’s remarks prior to an August 23rd special meeting with his security council about the implications of Washington’s recent testing of a missile off the coast of California that violates the recently dissolved INF Treaty.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin.