MOSCOW. May 16 (Interfax) - Russia is not planning to release its update on the aggregate numbers of its weapons covered by its treaty with the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) in response to the relevant publication by the United States, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"No, we won't," Ryabkov told journalists in Moscow in reply to a relevant question.
"We aren't considering this, we've read this, and our colleagues in other agencies have also seen this. We'll write it off to the archives in time, but we're making decisions depending on the situation, now based on absolutely different approaches and principles, [as] New START is suspended now," Ryabkov said.
As follows from the data released by the U.S. Department of State, as of March 1, 2023, the U.S. possessed 1,419 nuclear warheads on deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), on deployed submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and warheads counted for deployed heavy bombers. This figure is below the limit of 1,550 warheads stipulated by New START.