Putin Says Russia Ready to Honor New START Limits for a Year After Expiration
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Russia Ready to Honor New START Limits for a Year After Expiration, Putin Says
Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to continue observing the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty. The pact restricts each side to 1,550 deployed warheads and 800 launchers and bombers. It also provides for a series of mutual onsite inspections. The treaty is due to expire in February 2026.
New START, signed in Prague in 2010 by former U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart at the time, Dmitri Medvedev, restricts each side to 1,550 deployed warheads and 800 launchers and bombers. It also provides for a series of mutual onsite inspections.
In early 2023, Putin accused NATO of seeking to attack Russia’s nuclear facilities and declared that Moscow would suspend its role in the pact, which is due to expire in February 2026. Officials later clarified that Russia would still abide by the numerical limits but would discontinue other parts of the agreement.
At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Monday, Putin said it would be “a mistake” to “completely abandon the treaty’s legacy.”
“To avoid provoking a further strategic arms race and to maintain an acceptable level of predictability and restraint, we believe it is reasonable at this turbulent stage to try to preserve the status quo established under New START,” the Kremlin leader said.
Russia Ready to Honor New START Limits for a Year After Expiration, Putin Says
Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to continue observing the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty. The pact restricts each side to 1,550 deployed warheads and 800 launchers and bombers. It also provides for a series of mutual onsite inspections. The treaty is due to expire in February 2026.
New START, signed in Prague in 2010 by former U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart at the time, Dmitri Medvedev, restricts each side to 1,550 deployed warheads and 800 launchers and bombers. It also provides for a series of mutual onsite inspections.
In early 2023, Putin accused NATO of seeking to attack Russia’s nuclear facilities and declared that Moscow would suspend its role in the pact, which is due to expire in February 2026. Officials later clarified that Russia would still abide by the numerical limits but would discontinue other parts of the agreement.
At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Monday, Putin said it would be “a mistake” to “completely abandon the treaty’s legacy.”
“To avoid provoking a further strategic arms race and to maintain an acceptable level of predictability and restraint, we believe it is reasonable at this turbulent stage to try to preserve the status quo established under New START,” the Kremlin leader said.