Russia will ‘maximize’ arms production after treaty exit – ex-president

Dmitry Medvedev said “good riddance” after MPs backed the pullout from a treaty with NATO… Russia will field arms where it wants on its territory and step up its production of weapons after its withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) with NATO, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said. “Good riddance,” Medevev wrote on Telegram on Tuesday after the Russian parliament unanimously supported the law allowing Moscow to denounce the agreement, signed in 1990 by NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, comprising the USSR and its allies in Eastern Europe. The CFE limited the number of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, helicopters and aircraft allowed to be stationed in Europe in order to preserve parity and prevent the sides from amassing forces for a blitzkrieg-type offensive. “This document lost its relevance for us back in 2007,” the former president, who now holds the position of deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said. Russia suspended…