US says Russia’s nuclear arms treaty extension offer sounds ‘pretty good’

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the US agreed to do the same.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good”, but she added that US President Donald Trump would address the offer himself.
The agreement is the last US-Russia strategic nuclear arms control accord. It allowed for only one five-year…