US is to blame for raising tensions around New START

... arms control. And for the first time ever - regarding New START which our country has been irreproachably observing for all these years. Unlike, by the way, Washington, 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 the Embassy’s press service. He stressed that "these actions concern the central limits of New START, undermining the key goal of the agreement - to maintain the balance of the parties’ strategic offensive arms." "As for the substance of the accusations regarding the temporary exemption of the Russian strategic facilities from the Treaty ...