“I’m saying we can’t do business the way we used to, and that ‘before’ applies to everything before the period when we were in open de facto conflict with the United States,” he said.
Ryabkov also said that Moscow would consider re-discussing the START situation if Washington turns its hostile, anti-Russian course.
According to him, at the moment there are no points of contact between the countries on the subject of the treaty, in this regard, there are no grounds for conducting negotiations between the Russian Federation and the United States on the START issue.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation also noted that the risk of a nuclear conflict on the planet is now much higher than in the entire past decade.