Nuclear disarmament ultimately must include UK, France: Kremlin

Talks on reducing strategic nuclear weapons must first be conducted between Russia and the US, but the arsenals of Britain and France will ultimately have to be included in negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Sept 28.

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Mr Peskov’s remarks follow a Kremlin proposal to the US earlier in September to voluntarily maintain for a year the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in their New Start arms control treaty once it expires in 2026 — if the US does the same.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good”, but the issue was up to US President Donald Trump, who has said he wants to open denuclearisation talks with Russia and China.