UNSCUN Mar 30The United States should have offered more serious things to Russia when there was a dialogue on security guarantees, First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. On Tuesday, a meeting of the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine was held. US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who participated in the meeting, accused Russia of aggression against Ukraine and pointed out that during the security dialogue between Moscow and Washington, she proposed options that allegedly took into account the concerns of the Russian Federation, but «President Putin chose the invasion.» «I myself had direct contact with Russian partners to find a peaceful solution to address the concerns of the Russian Federation I sat opposite the Russian partners and put on the table many options for resolving concerns We provided, like NATO, a document containing very specific ways that would allow us to mutually solve problems security,” Sherman said. “I will not comment on the part that concerns your participation in the negotiations. Naturally, you are much better versed in them than I or my colleagues. But if the negotiations failed, then you probably somehow they didn’t improve in this direction. Probably, it was necessary to work better and offer more serious things. Now we have what what we have,” Polyansky replied. In early March, during a hearing in the House Committee, Sherman called Russia’s request to return NATO to its 1997 status as ridiculous. She noted that the United States could not agree with the demand to guarantee Ukraine's non-entry into NATO and the exit from the alliance of states that are members of it. At the same time, she then indicated that the United States offered Russia «things that are in the interests» of the Russian Federation.Russia was denied security guarantees, the Foreign Ministry said at the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demanded 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 contained 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. At the end of January, the US and NATO sent to Moscow written responses to Russia's proposals for security guarantees. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
