Russian President Vladimir Putin. File photoMOSCOW, 15 Feb. Russian President Vladimir Putin is «ready to negotiate» on the situation around Ukraine and security guarantees, spokesman for the head of state Dmitry Peskov told CNN.
"First of all, President Putin has always insisted on negotiations and diplomacy… and in fact, he initiated the issue of security guarantees for the Russian Federation. Ukraine is only part of the problem, it is part of a larger problem of security guarantees for Russia and, of course, President Putin is ready to negotiate", Peskov said.
In recent months, relations between Russia and the West have become even more tense, worsened the situation around Ukraine. Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of preparing an «invasion», declaring that Russian troops are being pulled up to the border with a neighboring state. Against this background, the North Atlantic Alliance is strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe: it is sending additional forces and military contingents there. The Kremlin denies these accusations and claims that they serve as a pretext for strengthening the bloc’s military presence near Russian borders. At the end of last year, Russia handed over draft documents to NATO and the United States on security guarantees, the main demand was the non-expansion of the alliance to the east, however, it was its Western partners that ignored it in their written response, which Moscow received at the end of January. />Will Russia Save Ukraine