OREANDA-NEWS. The US Department of State named Russian weapons that it wants to include in the extended Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III), which will expire in the beginning of 2021.

According to the agency’s “senior official”, the task is to ensure that the agreement covers not only the military equipment currently existing, but also “the range of new Russian systems that are being developed that are not and would not be New START accountable.” “Some of these sort of slightly exotic new systems such as the nuclear-powered, underwater, nuclear-armed drone called Poseidon; the nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile, air-launched ballistic missile and that sort of thing,” he said.

The representative of American diplomacy recalled that US President Donald Trump considers the extended agreement should include not only Russia, but China also.