“We are, in fact, trying to interact with Russia behind the scenes in order to understand what they think about this and what they need,” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
According to Stewart, the American side has not received official notifications from Moscow about the suspension of participation in START.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START Treaty.
He noted that the situation in which the US military is at Russian nuclear facilities, while the US is fueling a further escalation of the Ukrainian conflict, is simply impossible.