MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday welcomed remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump who mentioned that President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to voluntarily protect nuclear arms limits set out within the New START treaty for an additional 12 months seemed like a good suggestion.
Putin in September provided to voluntarily preserve for one 12 months the boundaries on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out within the New START Treaty, the final remaining Russian-U.S. arms management treaty, which expires on Feb. 5, 2026.
When requested concerning the proposal, Trump instructed reporters on Sunday that it “seems like a good suggestion to me.”
“In fact, we welcome such an announcement,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters. “We consider that this already provides grounds for optimism that america will help this initiative of President Putin.”
Russia and america are by far the most important nuclear powers with roughly 87 % of the world’s whole stock of nuclear weapons – greater than sufficient to destroy the world many instances over. Russia has a complete stock of 5,459 nuclear warheads whereas america has 5,177, in line with the Federation of Atomic Scientists.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Man Faulconbridge/Gleb Stolyarov; Modifying by Andrew Osborn)
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