General Staff General Russel said, "Army control is a long time ago...US tries Asian version of NATO"

Russia considers the arms control issue a thing of the past because it cannot trust the West, and has criticized the U.S. for trying to form an Asian version of NATO with South Korea and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

"It's because the West's double standard policy has made it impossible to restore minimal trust," Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's general staff, said at a briefing to foreign military officials in Russia on the 18th local time.General Staff Chief Gerasimov
took issue with the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and the Interceptor Missile Network (ABM) restriction agreement, and Russia also announced the suspension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement (New START).

In addition, General Staff General Gerasimov said the U.S. is deploying missile defense facilities and short- and medium-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, causing "strategic attack weapons competition," and stressed that "Russia is not bound by international missions to nuclear deterrence thresholds."

"Asian NATO is being formed, with the three-way alliance of the United States, Japan and South Korea playing a major role," Gerasimov said. "Russia, China and North Korea have been declared major enemies of the alliance."

He added that Russia is developing military exchanges with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and with Belarus, China, India, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.Chief of General Staff

Gerasimov says modern weapons in Russia's strategic nuclear forces have reached about 95% and ground groups have completed rearmament with the latest mobile ground-based missile systems.

It added that a new formation has been formed in the Aerospace Force to increase its aerospace defense capabilities.

Regarding Ukraine's third-year "special military operation," he stressed that Ukraine received a total of $350 billion from foreign countries, including about $170 billion in war supplies, but Russian forces with various experiences will surely achieve their goals.