Without Russia and the United States, the contract on the open sky (Don), allowing the reconnaissance flights of the participating countries over the territory of each other, is doomed to death. This was stated by the head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and armaments control Konstantin Gavrilov, his words lead RIA Novosti.
According to Gavrilov, an agreement without participating in it in Moscow and Washington “Not focusing.”
On May 28, the US State Department confirmed the final way out of Don. In the department they said that the United States does not intend to return to the treaty, “considering that Moscow could not take any actions to return to its observance.” The deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov called such a decision error.
An open access agreement concluded in 1992. The agreement allows participating countries to carry out intelligence flights over each other’s territory to follow military activities and compliance with existing arms control treaties. The United States came out of the Don at the end of November 2020, and on January 15, 2021, the domestic procedures for the exit from the Treaty of the beginning of Russia.