Moscow sees bleak prospects for expiring nuclear weapons treaty

Russia sees little chance of saving its last nuclear accord with the US, due to expire in eight months, given the “ruined” state of relations with Washington, its top arms control official said in an interview published yesterday.

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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also told TASS news agency that President Donald Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile defence project was a “deeply destabilising” factor, creating formidable new obstacles to arms control.

His comments were among Moscow's bleakest yet about the prospects for the New START agreement, the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the two countries, which caps the number of strategic warheads that each side can deploy.