Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that the US would no longer comply with the treaty which kept intermediate range missiles out of Europe, beginning as soon as Saturday.

Not to be outdone Putin stated today: 'Our American partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal, and we are also suspending our participation.'  

He continued: 'We will wait until our partners have matured enough to conduct an equal, meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic.'

Putin made the statement at a televised meeting with foreign and defence ministers Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu that Russia would no longer initiate talks with the US on disarmament.

Putin also said that Russia will start working on creating new missiles, including supersonic ones.

Pompeo threatened on Friday America would 'terminate' the treaty by Saturday if Russia did not come into compliance with it.