Pentagon: Military talks resume with Russia

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Published 15.45

 

A ballistic missile is launched in northwest Russia during an exercise to use Russian nuclear weapons. Image from a video from the Russian Defense Ministry dated October 2025. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Via AP/TT

The United States and Russia have agreed to resume high-level military dialogue after the New START nuclear arms treaty expired, according to the Pentagon.

The announcement comes hours after the joint disarmament agreement expired on Thursday.

The dialogue is “an important factor for global stability and peace,” the US military command Eucom (US European Command) said in a statement.

The agreement came after “productive and constructive progress” during peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, where the United States mediated.

The news site Axios reports, citing “three sources with insight,” that the two nuclear powers are nearing an agreement to continue to abide by New Start despite the agreement’s expiration.