The “last vestiges” of arms control agreements between Russia and the United States are disappearing, the Kremlin said on Friday, after a group of US senators introduced a bill on Thursday to withdraw the United States from the new nuclear arms control treaty, Reuters and Agerpress reported. .

Russian President Vladimir Putin in February suspended Russia’s participation in a treaty that limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the US and Russia can deploy.

“We can only state with regret that there are no serious, meaningful contacts on these issues between Moscow and Washington,” Kremlin press secretary Dmytro Peskov told reporters.

“Let’s put it this way, the last remnants of the international legal framework in this area are disappearing,” he added.

The new SNO treaty was signed in Prague in 2010, entered into force on February 5, 2011, and was extended in 2021 for five years immediately after the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

The treaty limits the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia to 800 launchers and 1,550 warheads on each side.

Both sides reached these limits in 2018. According to experts, Russia has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, which includes almost 6,000 warheads. Together, the US and Russia possess approximately 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads, enough to destroy the planet several times over.

Russia also denounced the Treaty on the Limitation of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

This Tuesday, the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, also denounced the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), acting urgently to comply with Vladimir Putin’s request to do so.

The Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), signed in 1990 and renewed in 1999, was at the time of its signing considered a cornerstone of the security architecture in Europe, as it eliminated the quantitative and numerical advantage that the Soviet Union had in terms of conventional weapons.

The treaty sets for each country the maximum number of tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, fighter jets and attack helicopters that NATO countries and Warsaw Pact countries (which formally still existed at the time of the signing of the treaty) can have. occur between the Atlantic and the Ural Mountains.

After several years of disagreements between Russia and NATO, in 2007 Moscow suspended its obligations under the CSTO, citing US plans at the time to deploy anti-missile shield elements in Poland and Romania, which Russia said posed a direct threat to its security.

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