Russia Withdraws from Several Military Agreements with European Countries

The Russian government has decided to terminate several military agreements with European countries.

The Ministry of Defense is allowed to terminate the documents signed between 1992 and 2002, Meduza reports.

In total, Moscow had military cooperation agreements with 11 European countries. These include Germany, Poland, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, Denmark, the Netherlands, Croatia, Belgium, and the Czech Republic.

The list also includes a mutual assistance agreement with the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

Thus, the decision covers both EU countries and states with a special status in the European security architecture.

Most of these agreements were concluded after the end of the Cold War and were aimed at developing defense cooperation.

Back in July, Moscow terminated the agreement on military-technical cooperation with Germany. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated at the time that the document “absolutely does not correspond to the current state of Russian-German interstate relations.”