The United States government has not been able to determine if Russia complied last year with treaty obligations to limit deployed nuclear warheads and believes it “may have exceeded” the numbers allowed, according to a report to Congress. 

The Russian Federation’s limit for deployed warheads on delivery vehicles, subject to the New START Treaty, is 1,550, because it failed to fulfill obligations with the treaty’s verification, according to the report, issued by the State Department last Friday. 

While the United States believes “with high confidence” that Russia didn’t engage in large-scale activity over the limits of the agreement, Russia was “probably close” to the limit for most of the year and “may have exceeded the deployed warhead limit by a small number during portions of 2024,” the report added. “Therefore, this constitutes a serious compliance concern.”

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