Russia does not want arms race with US: Putin aide

Russia does not want to enter a costly new arms race with the United States, a top Kremlin aide said Wednesday, after Moscow said it was boosting its nuclear arsenal.

 

“We are against any arms race because it naturally weakens our economic capabilities. And in principle we are against it,” Yury Ushakov, the foreign policy aide to President Vladimir Putin, told a briefing.

 

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