US-Russia nuclear treaty: Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the US agrees to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin 's proposal sounded "pretty good", but she added that US President Donald Trump would address the offer himself, Reuters reported. This agreement is the last strategic nuclear arms control agreement between the US and Russia. It allowed for only one five-year extension, which Putin and former US President Joe Biden agreed to in 2021. It allowed for only one five-year extension, which Putin and former US President Joe Biden agreed to implement in 2021.

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