MOSCOW, June 9 Russia notified all states -participants of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe about their decision to withdraw from it, this will happen on November 7, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Thus, this will happen at 00:00 on November 7,» the message published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry says. drop», which made it necessary for Russia to withdraw from the CFE Treaty.
The Russian diplomatic department specified that the Budapest Agreement would also become invalid together with Russia's withdrawal from the CFE Treaty.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
The CFE was signed in Paris in 1990, and in 1999 an updated version of the treaty was signed at the OSCE summit in Istanbul. The adapted treaty was ratified by only four countries — Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In 2007, Russia suspended its participation in the CFE Treaty «until the NATO countries ratify the Agreement on Adaptation and begin to implement this document in good faith.»