 Russia's president has called for resuming the production of intermediate missiles. Ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers were banned under the INF Treaty signed in 1988. The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2019, claiming Russia had violated the agreement. President Vladimir Putin says Russia has not produced such missiles since the 2019 scrapping of the treaty, but he says the U.S. has produced and deployed such systems.