Defense Ministers Shoigu and Austin discuss preparations for the NATO-Russia Council
The defense ministers of Russia and the United States held telephone talks. According to the Russian department, Sergei Shoigu and Lloyd Austin discussed security issues of mutual interest. Later, the head of the Pentagon wrote on Twitter: the conversation also considered the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border…
The ministers’ conversation took place against the background of preparation meeting of the NATO-Russia Councilto be held on January 12 in Brussels. Earlier, the West expressed a change in the movement of Russian troops near the Ukrainian borders, and Kiev, which pulled half of the payroll of the Ukrainian army to the Donbass, announced that Moscow was preparing for an invasion of Ukraine, the TV channel recalls. “Russia 24” and media platform “Watching”…
Russia is moving troops across its territory and at its discretion, responded to the expressed press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov… He said that Moscow does not threaten anyone, the movement of Russian military personnel on its territory is the sovereign right of Russia, which should not bother anyone.
Moscow earlier demanded from the West guaranteed security and ending the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance east to Russian borders…