Russia offered Monday to keep abiding by the nuclear warhead limits in a key treaty with the United States once it expires in February, but only for one year and if Washington did the same.

The New START treaty, signed in 2010, is the last remaining nuclear arms reduction agreement between the world's top two atomic powers and limits the number of nuclear warheads each side can deploy.

However inspections were suspended during the COVID-19 crisis while talks on extending the agreement have broken down in recent years due to tensions over the Ukraine conflict, sparking fears that both sides will breach the limits once it expires.

"Fully abandoning the legacy of this agreement would be, from many perspectives, a mistaken and short-sighted step," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a

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