美國官員：俄羅斯違反導彈條約

A White House official said Russia has violated a 30-year-old treaty by deploying a cruise missile.

The two countries agreed in 1987 under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty to not possess, produce or flight-test any ground-launched missiles that could fly between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.

In 2014, the U.S. State Department complained that Russia was in violation because it was developing and testing such a missile. Russia denied the allegation.

The White House official on Tuesday confirmed that Russia had progressed to deploying the missile.

The New York Times, which first reported the deployment, said that Russia has one battalion of the banned cruise missile at a test site at Kapustin Yar, and that another was moved in December to an operational site in another part of the country.

The State Department would not confirm the reported deployment, but spokesman Mark Toner did say that Russia was in violation of the treaty, citing the department's earlier allegations.白宮官員說，俄羅斯部署了一枚巡航導彈，這違反了一個有30年曆史之久的條約。

美俄兩國在1987年根據“中程核力量條約”同意不擁有、不生產或不試飛任何航程可達500至5500公里的從地面發射的導彈。

美國國務院2014年抱怨說，俄羅斯正在開發和測試這樣的導彈，從而違反了這一條約。但俄羅斯否認了這一指控。

白宮官員星期二證實，俄羅斯已經進展到部署這枚導彈。

首次披露這一消息的紐約時報說，俄羅斯在其阿斯特拉罕的導彈試驗場有這種被禁止的巡航導彈，另一個在12月被移到俄羅斯另一處的試驗地點。

美國國務院沒有確認報道所說的導彈部署，但發言人唐納說，俄羅斯違反了條約，並提及國務院早前的指控。