Russia suspends its participation to Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the only remaining arms control treaty with the US

MOSCOW (AA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday that Russia is suspending its participation in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the only remaining arms control treaty with the US.

New START is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the US and Russia, signed on April 8, 2010, in Prague by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, further ratified by both countries and entered into force on Feb. 5, 2011.

In 2021, the treaty was extended for five years, to 2026, upon the agreement between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden.

The agreement's official name is the treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, New START.

The treaty is the 7th in a series of bilateral agreements between the USSR/Russia and the US to limit strategic nuclear weapons.

In the early 1990s, the first and the last President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, said he saw the treaty as a means to complete nuclear disarmament,"to free humankind from nucle...
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