US President Donald Trump on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to voluntarily maintain limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons “sounds like a good idea." The proposal would mirror the 2010 New START treaty, which expires in February, and hinges on the US agreeing to the same limits.
Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said last week that Moscow was awaiting an official US response to Putin’s offer. If accepted, it would mark a rare point of cooperation amid growing tensions between the two nations, especially following alleged Russian drone incursions into NATO airspace since the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska in August, news agency Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, Putin warned that the US decision to possibly supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles c