According to TASS, he said this at a hearing in one of the subcommittees of the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives.

“As far as I know, this decision has not yet been made,” he said.

Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres called on Russia and the United States to extend START III.

Also, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov declared the risk of a nuclear war.

The editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko, in an interview with URA.RU, explained Ryabkov’s similar statement to the effect that negotiations on the extension of START III were at an impasse.