Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova in an interview with Izvestia announcedthat Moscow votes from the US written responses to each item of the draft security guarantee. It revealed Russia’s openness and cooperation in its actions, while Washington adheres to aggressive rhetoric and uses Ukraine as an instrument of influence to achieve its goals.

Expected Written Guarantees

Zakharova noted that Russia sent written proposals on security guarantees to Western partners, primarily the Communication to the States. Some time after the public opinion poll in Moscow, this project was published.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman added that in the desire of the United States to indicate a specific meeting of the next immediate event, it is especially important that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken take place at the initiative of Washington, despite the schedule and a lot of working moments.

In December 2021, Russia unveiled draft treaties with the United States and agreements with security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from Western partners to guarantee the refusal to maintain NATO in the East, from joining the Ukrainian bloc and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries.

In addition, the submitted documents 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.

Earlier, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on security issues and control over security issues, said that Russia does not intend to endlessly wait for answers to its security proposals from the US and NATO. The diplomat handled the attention that Moscow expects to receive a response from Western countries is already easy on the ground. If the US and NATO ignore Russia’s demands, then Moscow will defend security in Europe using certain methods.

US aggressive rhetoric

Zakharova also commented on the words that at a press conference following negotiations with Lavrov, Blinken began his speech very aggressively. The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that for the existing diplomacy, as a tool for this discussion, to conduct a dialogue in conditions where the parties to the meeting do not meet with another friend.

Zakharova noted that American journalists were not aware that it was the foreign side that initiated the interest and offered the place to Geneva. In addition, materials about the meeting were published almost the night before in order to deliberately “take away, create a backdrop.”

One point that I think needs to be clearly understood. We say: aggressive, misinforming. Don’t you think after reading all the materials that they are simply stupid? I mean the materials themselves. But, accordingly, probably, the people who meet

Maria Zakharovaofficial representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry

As an example of the level of Western colleagues, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cited the speech of British Foreign Minister Liz Truss that the Mongols and Tatars attacked Ukraine, Ukrainians survived more than one invasion between the Mongolian and Tatar ones.

Ukraine as an instrument of influence

Zakharova noted that Ukraine is perceived by the West as an instrument of influence to increase interest, destabilize diseases, therefore it causes disease and does not cause poisoning. In her opinion, forcing the environment around the Ukrainian issue is a reason to observe the “fire of observation”, while there are no facts proving Russian aggression or violations of international rights.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the collective West appeals to Ukraine in connection with global security, energy gas contracts, is being implemented with Germany in the energy sector, where both private business and the state meet.

Therefore, in Ukraine they perceive it as a tool and use it. This does not only apply to one area, this is a tool – known as a universal opener, apparently for them

Maria Zakharovaofficial representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry

Earlier, Zakharova complained that on the eve of the Russian-American meeting in Geneva, the US State Department published another propaganda bulletin about Russian policy “in the Ukrainian direction.” According to her, the State Department material was built “on the basis of individual stories taken out of context.” In this Moscow, “approaches that have nothing to do with reality” were attributed.