INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Kremlin said Friday that it wants to restart nuclear disarmament talks with United States President Donald Trump's administration "as
indicated they will adhere to the treaty's warhead limits until 2026, but they have yet to agree on a replacement, and discussions have
been stalled for months."We are interested in starting this negotiation process as soon as possible," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
rhetoric since launching the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, including signing a decree last year that lowered the threshold for using
nuclear weapons.New START, which was signed in 2010, limited the United States and Russia to a maximum of 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads
each.The collapse of the treaty follows the 2019 dissolution of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.That landmark agreement,
both conventional and nuclear.
