China News Service, February 22. According to a report by the Russian Satellite News Agency on the 22nd, Russian State Duma Chairman Volodin said that the Duma will consider suspending the implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which is a consequence of US foreign policy.
Volodin said on the social media Telegram that today the State Duma will consider President Putin's proposal to suspend the Russian Federation's implementation of the New START Treaty, a situation that is a consequence of Washington's foreign policy.
Volodin said that the United States stopped fulfilling its obligations and rejected the proposals of the Russian Federation on global security issues, which undermined the architecture of international stability and plunged the world into a state of conflict and challenge.
Volodin emphasized that "dialogue with Russia in the language of an ultimatum" is unacceptable.
Volodin also pointed out that members of the US Congress must know the "situation caused by negligence" of US President Biden and its possible consequences.
Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the European and International Comprehensive Research Center of the Department of World Economics and World Politics at the Russian National Research University’s Higher School of Economics, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to suspend the implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty The United States is no longer comfortable, making it "unable to continue to fight a hybrid war against Russia painlessly."
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a State of the Nation Address, announcing that Russia would suspend its implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, but emphasized that Russia was not withdrawing from the treaty.