The Kremlin said U.S. President Donald Trump has not yet responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to extend the New START treaty, which limits strategic nuclear weapons and is due to expire in February.
Russia had suspended its participation in New START’s verification processes in February 2023, as tensions flared with NATO over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, though it did not abandon the treaty entirely.
Putin has since proposed a voluntary one-year extension to the treaty’s restrictions on strategic nuclear arsenals from its expiration on February 5, inviting the U.S. to do the same.
“Of course, we are waiting for a response to Putin’s initiative,” Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said on Thursday, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
“We consider this a very important issue,” Peskov continued, originally in Russian. “We believe that, naturally, a more advantageous document, a more advantageous treaty would be needed for everyone.
“But reaching such a treaty is a very complex process that is stretched out over time.”
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