Russian president Vladimir Putin has used his annual address to announce he is suspending a major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the US.
The 2010 New START treaty allows each country to physically check the other's nuclear arsenal. Tensions over Ukraine had already brought the inspections to a halt but president Putin also announced that new strategic systems had been put on combat duty and he threatened to resume nuclear tests.
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