The United States has not approached Russia in order to resume talks on a document to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday at a news conference following talks with his Myanmar counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin. “They [the US] have not ...
Russia has dismissed the “utterly unfounded” speculations that it may use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, saying it would only use its nuclear arsenal in response to “direct aggression” by NATO countries over the ongoing conflict in the former Soviet state. Russian diplomat Alexander Trofimov made the remark at the Tenth ...