US and Russia agree to restart military communications as nuclear limits treaty expires

Published February 5, 2026 12:16pm ET



The United States and Russia have agreed to restart high-level military-to-military communications, which had been suspended in the fall of 2021, the same day the last remaining nuclear limitation treaty between them expired.

The reestablishment of the military-to-military communications channel, which U.S. European Command announced on Thursday, came after the U.S.-Russia-Ukrainian trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi this week.

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