Amid his nuclear forces on alert… Putin officially cancels an agreement with America
Sign, on Monday, passed a law ending an agreement with the United States to get rid of was already inactive and aimed to prevent both sides from developing more nuclear weapons.
The move comes in light of the cooling of relations between US-Russian agreements Trump canceled plans to hold a peace summit with Putin last week, considering that it would merely "Waste of time" He ruled out setting a new date for it unless the Russian President sent messages indicating that he would be open to reaching an agreement. And it was committed. "Plutonium Management and Disposal Agreement" Which was signed in 2000 and amended in 2010 by Moscow and Washington to reduce their stocks of Cold War-era plutonium by 34 tons each and limit themselves to using it in nuclear energy. US officials estimated that the agreement would get rid of the materials needed to produce the equivalent of about 17,000 nuclear weapons. Putin actually suspended Russia’s membership in the agreement in 2016 when the relationship was tense with then-President Barack Obama. The law that Putin signed on Monday and was approved by Russian representatives earlier this month represents an official withdrawal from the agreement. Western leaders have accused Russia of brandishing nuclear weapons since the military operation it launched. In Ukraine in February 2022. Days after the start of the operation, Putin put his nuclear forces on alert, and last year the Russian president signed a decree lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. Putin announced on Sunday that Russia had conducted a successful final test of a nuclear-propelled cruise missile.Russia Conflict And Europe
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