According to the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, Major General Andrei Sterlin, head of the Directorate of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, and Alexander Khryapin, a leading researcher at the Center for Military-Strategic Research of the Military Academy of the General Staff, are confident that the termination of the START-3 Treaty will destabilize the world …
“The Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, expiring on February 5, 2021, is the last agreement in the system of international security and arms control … In the event of its termination, the military-political situation will be significantly complicated, since in the absence of restrictive the uncontrolled build-up of strategic weapons by the United States is possible … The world again, as in the second half of the 20th century, will balance on the brink of a global nuclear catastrophe, “the General Staff believes.