Launch of a missile from an American operational-tactical missile and artillery system CHISINAU, Jan 27Bucharest participated in the preparation of proposals for Moscow in response to the project on security guarantees, the United States and Romania invited the Russian Federation to conduct mutual inspections of ballistic missile sites, state-owned Radio Romania reported, citing diplomatic sources. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the 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 the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. The U.S. and NATO submitted responses to security assurance proposals to Russia on Wednesday.The Romanian Foreign Ministry responded to Russia's demands for NATO The Wall Street Journal wrote, citing sources, that the United States and allies in Europe were discussing the idea of allowing Russia to inspect facilities with missile defense systems in Poland and Romania. According to the publication, Polish officials said they were ready for Russian inspections of US air defense facilities in Romania and Poland if Russia allowed inspections of «missile activity» in Kaliningrad. «Romania participated in the development of proposals for Russia contained in a document sent to Moscow Romania and the United States have provided a transparency mechanism in the document with proposals sent to Russia to mitigate the current crisis, this mechanism provides for mutual inspections of missile systems in Russia, Romania and Poland. «/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/659218af86bebaabdd7c6cc6be43856d.jpg» />US Discusses Sending «Thousands» of Troops to Eastern Europe, Media ReportedThe West has suggested that Russia inspect ballistic missiles in Deveselu, Romania, to make sure they are intended solely for defense. In response to this, the Russian Federation should allow inspections to be carried out in those places where Russian missiles are located. On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that the United States in its response on security guarantees did not answer the most important question — about non-expansion of NATO to the east, the content of the response The US on security guarantees allows for a serious conversation, but on secondary topics, Moscow is considering the US response and the NATO response on guarantees as a whole. According to him, after an interdepartmental agreement on the responses of the United States and NATO to the proposals of the Russian Federation on security will be reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will decide on further steps.
