The Russian Foreign Ministry considers it appropriate to extend the START Treaty for five years

Contacts between the two countries on this issue do not stop, he told TASS.

“We believe that the START Treaty, which has reliably ensured predictability in the field of nuclear missile weapons for a decade, deserves to be extended for a five-year period, during which it may be possible to develop a new or improve the existing arms control mechanism,” - stressed the deputy minister.

At the same time, Moscow does not see the US’s readiness “to respond positively to the call to extend the contract without preconditions,” Ryabkov added.

Earlier in the US, it was stated that to discuss the extension of START III, Russia “should bring China to negotiations.”

At the same time, Ryabkov noted that "it is impossible to connect China in principle to the current treaty."