A statement appeared on the NATO website about the decision to bring the forces into readiness and send additional ships and military aircraft to their locations in Eastern Europe. The report notes that in this way the alliance strengthens deterrence and defence “against the background of Russia’s continued buildup of forces in and around Ukraine.”
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, at a briefing criticized the document “NATO’s overarching Space Policy” published on January 17, 2022. According to her, the document is another attempt to legitimize the use of force in outer space, which contradicts the task approved by the international community to prevent an arms
The West faces the moment of truth, which has started the countdown in wait for the adoption of Russian proposals on security guarantees addressed to the US and NATO, according to the Head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, Konstantin Gavrilov, at the meeting of the OSCE
NATO’s “gradual invasion” into Ukraine has brought the bloc right up to Moscow’s “red line,” according to the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who also noted that the situation poses an imminent threat to European security. Peskov said in the interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that relations between Russia and NATO are nearing the red line
Relations between Russia and NATO are “at a critically low level,” as stated by the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin after the two parties hold a meeting in Brussels. “Russian-NATO relations are at a critically low level. This is happening against the backdrop of global instability, the terrorist threat, the deployment of another arms
Yesterday, in Brussels, the meeting of the Russian and NATO representatives took place. Russia expressed its concern after the event was over, as after almost four hours of talks not much was agreed and even some new disagreements were found. Still today, on January 13, there is expected another negotiation to happen with the OSCE
The first meeting since 2019 between high-level delegations from NATO and Russia on security guarantees in Europe as part of the NATO-Russia Council will take place at NATO headquarters in Brussels today, on January 12. The meeting comes after the US-Russia talks in Geneva which were held on Monday, January 10. The US side promised
Russia-US security talks in Geneva on January 10 lasted more than 7 hours but did not help the delegations of the two countries to go any further in solving mutual disagreements. The main focus of the talks on Monday was a proposal Moscow sent to the US last month insisting on depriving NATO’s further expansion
The preliminary part of the Russia-US strategic talks in the format of a working dinner took place in Geneva on Sunday evening, January 9, and lasted more than two hours. The Russian delegation is led by the Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, and his US counterpart Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman leads the US
NATO’s goal is to fill a void left over from the fall of the USSR, as stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He noted that “NATO is now a purely geopolitical project to develop the territory which was left abandoned after the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and after the collapse of the
Russian-American negotiations on security guarantees will take place immediately after the New Year holidays, as announced by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on Monday, December 27, 2021. “The main thing is, as the President said, that there is no chatter so that our proposals are not muddled in endless discussions about what the West
The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO would have serious military and political consequences and would require an adequate reaction from Russia, according to the official representative of the country’s Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “It is quite obvious that the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, which is primarily a military structure and
Western countries should not underestimate the determination of Russia and China to protect their national interests, including in the field of security, according to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. “We work calmly, confidently in our own abilities. There is probably one recommendation to colleagues in the West: do not underestimate the determination of
