Chairman of United Russia, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. File photoMOSCOW, June 20Now is not the time for new negotiations with the United States on the extension of the START-3 Treaty, Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told RIA Novosti. «This will depend on decisions of the president of the country. In turn, as a person who was directly related to START-3 and signed it in 2010, I consider the time for new negotiations to be the most inappropriate,» the source said. Medvedev noted that back in 2021, the situation for negotiations about the new agreement was different, «and now everything: dead zone.» The deputy chairman of the Security Council stated that relations between Moscow and Washington are «at zero Kelvin», and it is not necessary to unfreeze them yet, as this is harmful for Russia. Let them run or crawl themselves and ask for it. And they appreciate it as a special favor. Otherwise, it looks like this: they are solid abominations to us, and we are to them, here, pity the nuclear deal. <…> Unproductive, dangerous and looks like manifestation of weakness. Let them truly appreciate such a dialogue and ask for it on all the streets and in the gateways,» Medvedev added. START-3 is the only Russian-American nuclear weapons control regime. The White House of the Joe Biden administration: Russia and the United States have begun to agree on the parameters of a future nuclear arms limitation treaty, but the dialogue was interrupted after the start of a military special operation in Ukraine. />Medvedev recalled Khrushchev's methods in dealing with the United States
