Russia signs extension of New START upto 5 February 2026

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MOSCOW, 30 January 2021, (TON(: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the US upto 5 February 2026 that aims at measures for the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.

In 2010, Russia and the US signed the New START, which stipulates limits to the numbers of deployed nuclear warheads and strategic delivery systems by both. The agreement superseded 24 May 2002’s Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation.

According to New START both, the United States and Russia can maintain 700 deployed ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers but deployed and no-deployed should not exceed 800 while the limit for deployed warheads on ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers has been fixed to be 1550.

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