Flags of participating states in front of NATO Headquarters in BrusselsANKARA, Feb 13Russian Ambassador to Turkey Aleksey Yerkhov said that there are likely disagreements between NATO and the EU on Ukraine and international security. However, it would hardly be correct of me to talk about this topic, it would be better to ask the NATO members and the European Union themselves (although they will probably be more inclined to tell you about Russian «aggression», «threat», etc.)», — the ambassador said in an interview with the Turkish newspaper Türkiye, the translation into Russian of which was provided by the embassy.China responded to the West's hysteria with Zelensky's quote The diplomat also noted that Russia expects a simple thing from NATO. «, the creation of new military installations and the deployment of troops on the territories of other countries near our borders. If someone is satisfied with this, then we are not. And if we really proceed from the fact that security in Europe is common and indivisible — and this is exactly what we agreed in 1999 in Istanbul, when adopting the Charter for European Security, then our concerns must be taken seriously and we should think about steps that can eliminate them,» Yerkhov stressed. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security guarantees. 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. Later, the US and NATO sent written responses to Russia's security assurance proposals to Moscow.
