Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in the last arms control treaty between the two powers once it expires next year if the U.S. does the same.
The original treaty could only be extended once by five years, which Putin and former U.S. President Joe Biden agreed to implement in 2021, which is why Putin appealed to Trump to voluntarily agree a one-year informal rollover.
His offer, which comes as Ukraine tries to convince Trump to impose harsher sanctions on Russia, was made public by Putin at a meeting of his Security Council.