White House says parties 'urgently' working to extend treaty before February 5

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the lower house State Duma on Tuesday to extend a US-Russia nuclear agreement by five years.

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Putin spoke earlier in the day with President Joe Biden, agreeing “in principle” to continue with the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) pact struck in 2010. The deal limits the number of nuclear warheads deployed by Moscow and Washington to 1,550.

“On January 26, 2021, Russia and the United States reached an agreement on the extension of the treaty,” a note attached to the bill said. Read more at i24