US President Donald Trump has called Russia’s nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile test inappropriate and advised Russian President Vladimir Putin to focus on ending the conflict with Ukraine.

 

 

 

Interacting with reporters, President Trump said, Putin ought to get the war ended. He said, a war that should have taken one week to end is now in its fourth year. That is what he ought to do instead of testing missiles.

 

 

 

This comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his address to the Federal Assembly (Russia’s bicameral parliament), stated that Moscow had developed a small-sized nuclear power unit that could be used in a cruise missile to extend its range practically indefinitely. 

 

 

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has also signed a law terminating the already defunct plutonium disposal agreement with the United States, aimed at limiting production of nuclear weapons-grade material. The agreement, signed in September 2000, required both Russia and the United States to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium.