Russia on Monday welcomed a potential breakthrough in nuclear arms talks , praising U.S. President Donald Trump’s endorsement of President Vladimir Putin’s recent offer.

Putin had proposed voluntarily preserving the limits on nuclear weapons set by the existing New START treaty for an additional year, a proposal Trump publicly called “a good idea.”

Putin in September offered to voluntarily maintain for one year the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in the New START Treaty, the last remaining Russian-U.S. arms control treaty, which expires on Feb. 5, 2026.

When asked about the proposal, Trump told reporters on Sunday that it “sounds like a good idea to me.”

“Of course, we welcome such a statement,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “We believe that th

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