Putin Suspends Participation In Nuclear Treaty With US

February 21, 2023 Russia, United States

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START treaty with the United States that limits the two sides’ strategic nuclear arsenals.

“In this regard, I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty,” Putin told lawmakers towards the end of a major speech to parliament, nearly one year into the war in Ukraine.

It caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them.

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Russia will suspend its observation of the New START nuclear weapons treaty, Putin says, dealing a blow to the last accord with the US limiting their strategic arsenals https://t.co/SLbRwYNqm7

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