“As for START III, yes, I attracted attention to this, including speaking in Washington and in negotiations with Mike Pompeo and President Trump. What President Putin said is a direct response to attempts to speculate on the situation surrounding the START III treaty and to raise questions that remain with us about the actions that the United States takes when removing some carriers from the calculation, to pass off our questions as reluctance to renew the START treaty. III and for trying to blame everything on the USA, ”Lavrov said.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a major press conference said that Russia was ready to extend the Strategic Offensive Arms Reduction and Limitation Treaty (START III) until the end of the year.