The State Department announced a “strong consensus” in Europe to counter Russia – RBK
Reports that Russia is building up its military force on the border with Ukraine appeared in the Western media in October. In particular, The Washington Post and Politico wrote about this, turned to intelligence data and satellite images. Agency Associated Press reported that Russia will start military operations in Ukraine at the beginning of 2022, sending 175 thousand rubles there. military. The Kremlin rejected this information, called it baseless and said that Russia does not threaten anyone. President Vladimir Putin said that it was NATO that was making “dangerous attempts to conquer Ukrainian territory.”
In mid-December, Russia sent the United States and NATO a draft agreement on security guarantees for Russia and the countries of the alliance. Among the proposals was the refusal to include the countries of the former USSR in the bloc and the deployment of NATO military bases on their territories.
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Thereafter, the United States and Russia agreed to hold strategic security talks in Geneva. They are scheduled for January 10th. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also confirmed that an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on January 12 in Brussels.
Earlier, the representative of the military bloc Oana Lungescu said that on the eve of the Russia-NATO Council, a meeting of foreign affairs of all countries of the North Atlantic Alliance will also take place. “On January 7, an extraordinary virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the NATO countries will take place. They will consider a wide range of European security issues, ”she said.