Putin Seeks Arms Control Treaty After Summit with Trump

Vladimir Putin stated that Russia and the US can begin work on a new arms control treaty following the summit in Alaska. He praised the US for its efforts to stop hostilities and emphasized that an agreement on the control of strategic offensive weapons could create long-term conditions for peace.

Alexander Kolyandr stated that Putin's goal is to separate the issue of war from bilateral relations, including strategic and economic ones.

Putin's statements come after Moscow announced that Russia no longer considers itself bound by the moratorium on the non-deployment of medium and short-range missiles, as long as the US does the same. The focus is also on US-Russia economic cooperation as an incentive to end the war in Ukraine.

Putin's foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, stated that the two leaders will discuss bilateral economic cooperation.