Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
Mr. Peskov said that President Putin has repeatedly declared his readiness to restore and develop relations as enthusiastically as the US side is ready to do it. Putin is ready to settle the most dramatic differences through dialogue, he said.
Russia and the US have struck a deal to extend the New START nuclear arms control treaty for five years, a move that preserves the last major pact of its kind between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers.
Biden and Putin discussed the issue by telephone last month.