Vladimir Putin has said Russia will suspend its participation in its only remaining nuclear arms treaty with the US, scaling up tensions to a level unseen since the cold war as his invasion of Ukraine nears its first anniversary.
In a state-of-the-nation address on Tuesday, the Russian president claimed the US had effectively forced him to start the war by threatening Russia, making his most explicit threats to deploy nuclear weapons since the war began.
“Our relations have degraded and that’s completely and utterly the US’s fault,” Putin said.
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