Moscow has said it had had “no other choice” but to cancel talks with the US over inspections under the “New START” nuclear weapons control treaty, Russian state-run news agencies report.
Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said Washington had wanted to discuss resuming inspections while Moscow had other priorities.
The situation in Ukraine also played a part in Russia’s eleventh-hour decision to scrap the meeting of the bilateral commission, which had been due to begin in Cairo on Tuesday.
Mr Ryabkov said it was unlikely any meeting between the two sides would take place this year, news agencies reported.
It comes as Nato allies promised to boost aid for Ukraine as Russian president Vladimir Putin continues to wield winter as a weapon of war because his forces are failing on the battlefield.
“We have delivered generators and spare parts, and the allies are helping to rebuild destroyed infrastructure,” Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting in Bucharest, adding the gathering would serve as a platform to ramp up western aid to rebuild Ukraine‘s energy infrastructure.
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