The Russian Embassy in Washington confirmed that US countermeasures in the context of the Strategic and Offensive Arms Reduction Treaty (START) will not affect Russia's position, after the United States said it would stop providing Russia with some of the information required under the New START Treaty.
She pointed out that the accusations leveled against her by the US State Department of violating the treaty have nothing to do with the real causes of the crisis.
The US State Department said that Washington began on Thursday to withhold notifications of the New START treaty from Russia, including missile and bomber sites.
The State Department said in a statement that the United States had stopped sharing telemetry data with Russia on submarine ballistic missile launches.
Washington took these steps in response to Moscow's continued violations of the New START treaty, noting at the same time that Washington is committed to the full and mutual implementation of the treaty.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not formally withdrawn from the treaty, which limits the deployment of a strategic nuclear arsenal.
On Feb. 21, Putin said Russia would suspend its participation in the treaty, undermining the last pillars of U.S.-Russian coordination on nuclear non-proliferation.
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 and currently due to expire in 2026, limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the two countries can deploy, stipulating that Moscow and Washington can deploy no more than 1550,700 strategic nuclear warheads and <> land- and submarine-launched bombers and missiles.