let's bring back in orrin lieberman, orrin following the story for us in moscow. you are saying the latest readout came a short time ago report. correct. george, it was a readout from the meeting between president vladimir putin and his defense minister and foreign minister. they said first we are withdrawing from this as a tit for tat response from the u.s. yesterday and following it up saying there should be no arms race and there will be no arms race f. that same statement, russia announced it was further developing what is known as a caliber missile. a sea based hypersonic missile does not or would not have violated the terms of the inf treaty. he said he is further developing towards a ground based version of that same missile, which would be a blatant violation of that treaty. the treaty is in tatters. the u.s. has been looking to withdraw from this. even though the accusations are right saying show us the everyday russia violated the treaty and second there were allegations it was in fact the u.s. that violated the treaty in terms of its drones and systems.

cnn's orrin lieberman is in moscow.more do we know about the missile that moscow is threatening to build? >> well, it's worth pointing out that before russian president vladimir put be talked about this missile, he said there should be no arms race and there will be no arms race. describing his decision, russia's decision, to withdraw from the inf, the arms control treaty, as a tit-for-tat with the u.s. seals the russians were threatening to suspend the treaty and this was their response. saying if the u.s. isn't going to abide by the treaty, there's no reason for us to do so. shortly after saying there won't be an armed race, putin talked about the missile that will further develop. russia currently has a missile called the calibecaliber. itlimits of treaty. putin said they will develop a ground-based version of the same missile. russia signaling if the treaty's not going to be held up anymore on the u.s. end, we're not going to hold it up and will continue to develop weapons. russia saying if the u.s. is going to do r