NEW: Putin says Russia will suspend participation in its last remaining nuclear treaty with the U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow. Photo: Dmitry Astakhov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
The two countries agreed in March 2020 to suspend inspections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But when the U.S. sought to resume them last August, Russia rebuffed the efforts, the State Department said.I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty," Putin said at the end of his major speech on Monday, just three days ahead of one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine "has become hostage of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters, which have effectively occupied the country," Putin said, adding that the West has "effectively occupied this country in the political, military and economic sense." put in place in response to the invasion were meant to "make the people suffer ... but their calculation did not materialize."Between the lines:
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