U.S. troops during NATO exercises in PolandWASHINGTON, Feb. 2The United States has offered Russia to discuss the possibility of inspecting NATO bases in Romania and Poland for cruise missiles in the event of similar steps from Moscow, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing its own sources. Allegedly, we are talking about Tomahawk multi-purpose cruise missiles. «The United States has told the Kremlin that it is willing to discuss giving Russia the opportunity to make sure that these missiles are not stationed at NATO bases in Romania and Poland,» the agency said. Such a proposal assumes that Russia «will provide similar information about certain military bases» on its territory. Earlier, Romanian radio reported that the United States and Romania offered Russia to conduct mutual inspections of ballistic missile sites. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources, that the United States and its European partners discussed 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 at US air defense facilities in Romania and Poland if Moscow allowed inspections of «missile activity» in Kaliningrad. Late last year, Moscow handed over draft security guarantee documents to Brussels and Washington. The Kremlin insists on ending the bloc's military cooperation with the post-Soviet countries, refusing to establish bases on their territory, limiting the deployment of strike weapons near the Russian border, removing American nuclear weapons from Europe and not expanding NATO to the east. On January 26, Russia received a written response. The Foreign Ministry said that Western partners ignored the most important issue of non-expansion of the alliance. The ministry also promised to respond in the near future.
Moscow is waiting for NATO's response to the security message, Lavrov said
