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 U.S. agreed to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but she added that U.S. President Donald Trump would address the offer himself. The agreement is the last U.S.-Russia strategic nuclear arms control accord. It allowed for only one five-year extension, which Putin and former U.S. President Joe Biden agreed to implement in 2021. The offer, which comes as Ukraine tries to convince Trump to impose harsher sanctions on Russia, was made public by Putin at a meeting of his Security Council.

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