Moscow expects that there will be a meeting at the expert level in the coming days to discuss extending New START and a nuclear stockpile freeze. “Difficult expert consultations are expected to take place in the coming days with a goal to secure an extension agreement,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this morning, adding that the experts would particularly talk about freezing the number of nuclear warheads. Peskov also said that “the issue is highly complicated because there are many strong disagreements between Moscow and Washington.”