“As a person who was directly related to START-3 and signed it in 2010, I consider the time for new negotiations to be the most inopportune,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram. 

According to him, even last year the situation for negotiations on a new agreement was different, but today Moscow has no relations with Washington.

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) are at zero Kelvin,” Medvedev said. 

Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, said that the interaction between Russia and the United States under the START-3 treaty was not interrupted, the consideration of relevant issues and the exchange of data continue.

Assistant Secretary of State Mallory Stewart said the United States is interested in maintaining START restrictions on Russian nuclear arsenals beyond 2026.