Russia has terminated decades-old military cooperation agreements with Portugal, France and Canada by decree published on Friday, according to Russian state media.
The three agreements signed between 1989 and 2000 are no longer strategically relevant, Russian authorities said.
The agreements were signed during a period of improved relations between Russia and the West following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Canada agreement came just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 — which effectively signaled the end of the Cold War — when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to mend bridges with Western nations.
The 1994 France agreement followed Russian President Boris Yeltsin's broader push to integrate Russia into European security structures.
Yeltsin had initially hoped Russia could join NATO or develop a special partnership with the alliance, signing treaties with France committing both countries to consult during crises and build "a network of peace and solidarity" in Europe.
The 2000 Portugal agreement came during what researchers describe as the most fruitful period for Russia-Portugal relations in the 1990s and 2000s, when high-level visits were frequent despite Portugal's NATO membership.
Since then, the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin have shown an increasingly hostile posture towards NATO and the West, claiming it is intentionally encroaching closer to Russia and blaming it for Moscow's war in Ukraine.
