MOSCOW/WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the US agreed to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but she added that US President Donald Trump would address the offer himself. The agreement is the last US-Russia strategic nuclear arms control accord.

Mr. Putin said Russia didn’t want to provoke a strategic arms race with the United States, but his offer is limited in scope.

Russia and the U.S. have by far the biggest nuclear arsenals in the world.

According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the US leader thinks "the proposal sounds pretty good"

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord…

President Putin proposed a one-year New START extension to Trump, urging US reciprocity to prevent a nuclear arms race.

Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin's "good political will, will remain viable only if Washington takes a corresponding position"