“We have shown sufficient constructiveness, we have demonstrated an extremely responsible approach, and the Americans continue to demand from us everything new and new from the point of view of satisfying Washington’s certain ideas about what is right and what is wrong,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to Ryabkov, the Russian side in this matter "has no further room for maneuver," and the Americans, only by their rhetoric about being on the threshold of an START agreement, "will not bring this agreement with us closer."
As the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman noted, Washington "must accept the approach that President Putin outlined at a meeting with the members of the Security Council, which we presented to the Americans at our level behind closed doors."
Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Russia, in principle, agreed to freeze its nuclear arsenal.
As the diplomat noted, the current START III treaty limits 45% of Russia's nuclear arsenal and 92% of the US arsenal.
On October 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow, proposing to extend the START treaty for a year, is ready, together with the United States, to freeze the number of nuclear warheads.