US is to blame for raising tensions around New START

...," he added. "This year, against the backdrop of a frenzied confrontation with Russia initiated by the West, the Administration has been clearly eager to throw at... ... unfounded claims in the area of arms control. And for the first time ever - regarding New START which our country has been irreproachably observing for all these years. Unlike... ... on whose conscience lies the illegitimate removal of more than a hundred strategic weapons from the accountability under the Treaty," Antonov stated, as cited by...