Russian President Vladimir Putin MOSCOW, 2 Feb. From the response of the United States on security guarantees, it is already clear that the American side has ignored fundamental Russian concerns, President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference following a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The head of state noted that Moscow is carefully analyzing the January 26 and NATO responses to security assurance proposals. «We didn't see adequate consideration of our three key requirements,» the president said.The UN commented on Putin's reaction to the West's response to guarantees. Among the main points, Putin called the prevention of the expansion of the alliance, the refusal to deploy strike weapons systems near Russian borders, and the return of NATO's military infrastructure in Europe to the state of 1997. He recalled that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the alliance promised not to move its infrastructure to the east, but now the bloc includes the Baltic countries, Poland and Romania. At the same time, the president drew attention to the fact that the policy of «open doors» is not fixed anywhere in the documents of the alliance. He also spoke about the threats that Ukraine's accession to NATO entails. «It is written in the doctrinal documents of Ukraine itself that they are going to return Crimea, including by military means. Not what they say in public, but it is written in the documents. Let's imagine that Ukraine is a NATO member, stuffed with weapons, modern strike systems are the same as in Poland and Romania — who will stop it? And starts operations in the Crimea, now I'm not even talking about the Donbass, «Putin suggested. He urged to think about what a scenario like this could lead to. Putin stressed that Moscow is striving to avoid an escalation of the situation, for this it is necessary to ensure the security of all interested parties — Russia, the European Union, and Ukraine.Nebenzya called the US-convened UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine a provocation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that Moscow expects a prompt response from each NATO country, including the United States, to the message on the indivisibility of security sent on February 1. «We expect a prompt reaction. It should not take a lot of time — after all, we are talking about clarifying the understanding on the basis of which your president (prime minister) signed the relevant obligations,» the text of Lavrov's message posted on the Foreign Ministry website to the heads of the foreign ministries of the United States, Canada and a number of European countries says. The message is devoted to the subject of the indivisibility of security and was sent on January 28 of this year. «We also assume that the reaction to this message will come in a national capacity, since the mentioned obligations were taken by each of our states individually, and not on behalf of or as part of any bloc «, — the document says. As Lavrov said following a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Moscow is completing an interagency coordination of the response to the US and NATO response on security guarantees. At the same time, he pointed out that Washington and its NATO allies neglect the principle of the indivisibility of security. «This key principle of international law, agreed upon in the Euro-Atlantic space, our Western colleagues are simply trying not to even ignore, but to put into complete oblivion. And so that this does not happen when we received a reaction from Washington to our initial proposals, I described in detail what we are now talking about with you in a separate message, and sent it to all the foreign ministers of the OSCE states and a number of other states so that they know our position,» he stressed. head of Russian diplomacy. According to the minister, he confirmed to Blinken that «this is a topic that we will not allow to be covered up, and we will instruct on an honest conversation.»Slutsky: US reduces negotiations to myth of Russia's «invasion» of UkraineUkrainian issue and negotiations with the WestIn recent months, relations between Russia and the West have become even more tense. Western countries accuse Moscow of preparing an «invasion» of Ukraine and, against this background, are strengthening their presence in Eastern Europe and threatening to tighten sanctions. Russia rejects all claims and recalls that Kiev does not comply with the Minsk agreements: the Armed Forces of Ukraine have concentrated half of the army’s personnel near the line of contact and are firing at militias from prohibited weapons. Moscow has repeatedly indicated that the goal of the “aggression” stuffing is to build up a foreign group near the borders of Russia . In addition, the Kremlin and the Foreign Ministry explained that the main reason for the escalation in Ukraine is the actions of the United States and NATO, which send military instructors, weapons and equipment there, increase the number of exercises, thereby pushing Kiev to military adventures. At the end of last year, Moscow handed over Brussels and Washington draft documents on security guarantees. The Kremlin insists on ending the bloc's military cooperation with the post-Soviet countries, refusing to create 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 27, Russia received a written response. The Foreign Ministry said that Western partners ignored the most important issue of non-expansion of the alliance. /02/0f81bb3eb34a544153b1a19eaa9dcb21.jpg» />Infographic
