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Moscow — Russia told the US on Monday that it will not allow inspections of weapons under the START nuclear arms control treaty for the time being because of travel restrictions imposed by Washington and its allies.
Washington's proposed inspection terms "will unilaterally benefit the United States and effectively deprive the Russian Federation of the right to conduct inspections on American territory," the Moscow Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Russia remains committed to complying with all provisions of the treaty, he added.
The United States and its allies, including the United Kingdom and the European Union, have announced that the United States will continue to support Russia as part of a series of sanctions imposed in response to Russia's decision to send troops to Ukraine in February. closed the airspace to the aircraft.
The New START Treaty, which entered into force in 2011, limits 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 carry them.
US President Joe Biden last Monday gave his opinion on a framework to replace New START, which is set to expire in 2026 if Moscow signals its intention to resume work on nuclear weapons control. The administration said it was ready to negotiate "quickly."
However, Russia's Permanent Mission to the United Nations said Washington will withdraw from separate talks with Russia on strategic stability over the Ukraine conflict and decide what it wants. said there was a need.
The next day, the Kremlin said it had run out of time to negotiate a new HIS START alternative and that global security was in jeopardy.
The conflict in Ukraine has heightened political tensions to levels not seen since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, with both Russian and U.S. politicians clamoring for World War III. Speaking publicly about danger.
Moscow said it had no choice but to intervene in Ukraine to protect Russian-speaking people from persecution and to avoid the threat of Western powers using Ukraine to threaten Russia's security. there is Kyiv and its Western allies say these are groundless pretexts for imperial-style land grabbing. (Reporting by Reuters, Editing by Kevin Liffey and John Stonestreet)
