Kremlin says Russia ready for further nuclear arms control talks - Interfax

Russia was ready for further talks on arms control, the Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.

Asked by reporters to clarify a comment by President Vladimir Putin suggesting Russian irritation with the West's stance on nuclear arms control, Peskov said: "Russia is ready to conduct negotiations." Russia and the United States, by far the biggest nuclear powers, have both expressed regret about the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the Cold War arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.

Amid the crisis caused by Russian forces being sent into Ukraine in early 2022, Putin announced in February that Russia was suspending participation in the New START treaty - an accord signed in 2010 that limits the number of Russian and U.S. deployed strategic nuclear warheads.