A top aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin says Moscow refuses to engage in a costly new arms race with the US, adding, however, that Russia will not back down in the face of possible threats.
The comments by Yury Ushakov on Wednesday came one day after Putin announced that Russia’s nuclear arsenal would be beefed up by 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year.
“Russia is trying to react to possible threats with some sort of means, but that’s it,” Ushakov, who serves as Putin’s top foreign policy aide, told reporters in Moscow.
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Source: Iran English Radio
