EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell BRUSSELS, Jan 4 EU Head of Diplomacy Josep Borrell said he supported the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on January 12. “On the eve of my visit to Ukraine, I discussed with (NATO Secretary General — ed.) Jens Stoltenberg the close coordination between the EU and NATO and welcomed the forthcoming The NATO-Russia Council, «he wrote on his Twitter. 
In the US, the strategy for Ukraine was called a mistake The head of EU diplomacy will first, together with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, visit the east of the country and the contact line in Donbass, after which he plans to travel to Kiev, where he will also meet with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. NATO on January 12. According to Stoltenberg, it is planned to discuss issues related to European security, which are primarily related to Ukraine. 
Russia cannot have a role in In addition, as previously reported, negotiations between the Russian Federation and the United States on Russian proposals on security guarantees are scheduled for January 10 in Geneva. It is expected that after the Russian proposals will be discussed on January 12 at the Russia-NATO Council and on January 13 at the OSCE site in Vienna. At the end of 2021, Russia published a draft treaty with the United States and a NATO agreement on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusal from further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from the creation of military bases in post-Soviet countries.
