Russia has informed the United States that it is temporarily exempting its facilities from inspections under the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START), the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
"On August 8, 2022, the Russian Federation officially informed the United States via diplomatic channels that our country is temporarily exempting its facilities from inspection activities under the New START Treaty. This exemption also covers facilities that can be used for demonstrations under the treaty," it said.
"We would like to stress that these measures have temporary character," the ministry added.
The ministry stressed that Moscow was forced to do that because of "Washington’s tenacious desire to relaunch the inspection activities without prior arrangement on conditions that ignore the current realities, give the United States unilateral advantages and deprive Russia of the right to carry out inspections in the United States."
"After the resolution of the existing problems and issues regarding the resumption of inspection activities under the treaty, the exemptions from inspection activities we have announced will be immediately canceled and it will be possible to conduct them in full again."
