MOSCOW, Feb 17Moscow conveyed to US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan the reaction to the US response on security guarantees, the Foreign Ministry said. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is specified that we are talking about the rejection of further expansion of NATO, the withdrawal of the «Bucharest formula» that «Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO», and the rejection of the creation of military bases on the territory of states that were previously part of the USSR and were not members of the alliance, including the use of their infrastructure for conducting any military activity, as well as the return of military capabilities, including strike, and NATO infrastructure to the state of 1997, when the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed. «In the absence of the readiness of the American side negotiate firm, legally binding guarantees for our security with On the part of the United States and its allies, Russia will be forced to respond, including by implementing measures of a military-technical nature,» follows from the text.Yesterday, 08:00 The West counts Russia's defeat due to non-appearance for the war The document emphasizes that there is no «invasion of Ukraine» and is not planned. security guarantees,” the ministry said. The Foreign Ministry noted that Russian obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum had nothing to do with the internal Ukrainian conflict, and also recalled that the loss of territorial integrity by the state occurred as a result of internal processes. The text of the document notes that in order to resolve the situation, it is necessary that Kiev comply with the Minsk agreements, and the West stop pumping weapons into the country and withdraw all its instructors from there. «and the fundamental interests in the field of security, as well as the sovereign right of Russia to protect them, are still being ignored,» the ministry said. The document emphasizes that demands to withdraw troops from certain regions on Russian territory are unacceptable and undermine the prospects for reaching real agreements. Later in the US State Department confirmed to RIA Novosti that they received a letter from Russia as part of a bilateral security dialogue. content/uploads/2022/02/0fe3b63da5e228287f501ee95b26f586.jpg» />InfographicExchange of views on security guarantees At the end of last year, against the backdrop of deteriorating relations with the West and aggravation around Ukraine, Moscow handed over draft documents on security guarantees to Brussels and Washington. 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 26, Russia received a written response — Western partners ignored all the main points. Moscow believes that the position of Washington and Brussels runs counter to the OSCE commitments on the indivisibility of security: the United States and NATO are defending their interests to the detriment of others. On Monday, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Lavrov said that a new message from the Russian side was formulated in the near future. 
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