EU cannot accept responsibility for situation in Ukraine, foreign ministry says

The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Smolenskaya Square in MoscowMOSCOW, Jan 27 Implementation of Moscow's proposals on security guarantees will help strengthen European security, Alexei Zaitsev, deputy director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Thursday. essence to Ukraine.The Foreign Ministry called even the idea of ​​a war between Russians and Ukrainians unacceptable»The pathological inability to admit its miscalculation in supporting the coup d'etat in 2014 and to refuse open indulgence to the Kiev authorities … prevents the European Union not only from assisting in resolving the intra-Ukrainian conflict, but also from taking a broad look at situation in Europe — to understand that the implementation of Russian proposals on legally binding security guarantees from the United States and NATO will create the necessary conditions for the stable development of all countries of our common continent, strengthen European security,» Zaitsev said. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft agreements with United States and agreements with NATO on security assurances. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons near Russia's borders and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. On Wednesday, the US and NATO handed over to Russia responses to proposals for security guarantees. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if the United States is asked not to publish its response to Russian security proposals, Moscow will not do so. At the same time, the minister added that the essence of Washington's reaction to the Russian proposals, of course, deserves that the public in Russia and in other countries be informed about this. jpg» />Yan Leshchenko: American mercenaries from Academi are in Donbass