US and Russia to resume high-level military talks

The United States and Russia will resume a high-level military-to-military dialogue that was suspended shortly before the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

This is the latest sign that the Trump administration is pursuing more normalised relations with Moscow, even as a key nuclear weapons treaty between the two powers expired.

Yesterday marked the end of the New START Treaty, which limits the numbers and types of nuclear weapons each country maintains.

In response, President Donald Trump in a social media post, called for a new, improved, modernised pact that could last for a long time.

Both developments coincided with the latest efforts to end the four-year-old Ukraine conflict.

According to one US official, the decision to resume military talks between Washington and Moscow was a direct by-product of the peace negotiations, which so far have failed to produce a significant breakthrough that would halt the fighting.

The official said that US-Russian interactions in recent days created an opening for further dialogue.