The U.S. authorities introduced new countermeasures in response to Russia’s unilateral announcement to droop its implementation of the nuclear disarmament treaty “New START” with Russia. I made it clear that I’ll cease notifying the aspect.
On the first, the US State Department introduced countermeasures towards Russia’s unilateral announcement that it could droop the implementation of the nuclear disarmament treaty “New START” with the United States in February this yr.
According to this, from the first of this month, we are going to cease notifying the Russian aspect of the newest standing and positions of missiles and launchers, and many others., among the many data supplied by the treaty.
It additionally mentioned it could cease cooperating in accepting Russian inspectors into related services and sharing telemetry knowledge from check launches of ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles).
On the opposite hand, we are going to proceed to inform prematurely about ICBM and SLBM launch experiments.
In March, the US authorities introduced that it could cease offering data to Russia relating to the variety of deployed nuclear warheads and technique of supply, and this time it added countermeasures.
The State Department mentioned that this measure is to ask the Russian aspect to rethink the suspension of the treaty, saying, “If the Russian side implements the treaty, the measures will be withdrawn.”