Last week, the United States and Russia agreed to extend the New START accord for five years. Due to expire on Feb. 5, the 2010 treaty caps both sides’ long-range strategic forces and is the last remaining bilateral agreement regulating Washington’s and Moscow’s nuclear arsenals.
Washington Post: US and Russia kept a bilateral nuclear weapons deal alive
A worker cleans snow on a bridge over the Moskva river outside the Kremlin during a heavy snowfall in Moscow on Dec. 25, 2020.