Motherland Monument in Kiev KIEV, January 4 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba and Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipovsky agreed on joint steps to «contain the Russian Federation,» the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. «Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba held a telephone conversation with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipovsky … Heads of Ukrainian and Czech diplomacy agreed the positions of Ukraine and the Czech Republic against the background of aggressive actions of the Russian Federation and on the eve of a number of diplomatic contacts between the United States, NATO, OSCE and the Russian Federation … The ministers agreed on common steps to contain the Russian Federation from further aggression, «the statement on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says. 
The US called the strategy on Ukraine a mistake In addition, the parties discussed the development of the «Crimean Platform». It is noted that Lipovsky assured Kuleba of the Czech Republic's full support for this format. Russia has repeatedly rejected accusations of the West and Ukraine of «aggressive actions», stating that it does not threaten anyone and does not intend to attack anyone, and statements about «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry previously noted that the West's statements about «Russian aggression» and the opportunity to help Kiev defend itself against it are both funny and dangerous. 
In Ukraine, they named the main sign of the country's collapse. At the same time, Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is moving troops within its territory and at its own discretion. According to him, this does not threaten anyone and should not worry. At the end of 2021, Russia published a draft treaty with the United States and a NATO agreement on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, is demanding legal guarantees from Western partners that they will not further expand NATO to the east, join the Ukrainian bloc and create military bases in post-Soviet countries. Russian and US talks on Russian proposals for security guarantees are scheduled for January 10 in Geneva. It is assumed that after the Russian proposals will be discussed on January 12 at a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council specially convened in Brussels and on January 13 at the OSCE site in Vienna. 
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