The Arms Control Association describes it as a " key cornerstone of the US-Russia nuclear arms control architecture that helped to halt and reverse the Cold War-era nuclear arms race and remove a significant threat to Europe." Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Unions victory over Nazi. The INF treaty of 1988 is the only treaty ever to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons. Tian Bing/China News Service via Getty Images Russia has scaled down its May 9 Victory Day military parade by almost 35. Shaun Walker in Moscow Thu 12.07 EDT Last modified on Wed 10.17 EDT Seventy years ago, Soviet tanks made it all the way to Berlin, but on Thursday morning one of the newest. “The Russian Federation remains in violation of its INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) Treaty obligations not to possess, produce or flight-test a ground-launched cruise missile with a range capability of 500 to 5,500 kilometers, or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles,” acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. Russia's cruise missile deployment violated a major US-Russia treaty, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), because they have a range of 620 to 3,420 miles and fire from ground-based launchers, enabling Russia to hit European capitals from its homeland. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Thousands of people will line the streets of Moscow's Red Square on Tuesday as part of Russia's annual Victory Day parade, when the Kremlin will display a front of military might and grandeur. The 2017 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a military parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945.
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