The Kremlin demanded "documentation" of guarantees for non-expansion of NATO.
The Russian authorities, after another meeting between the special envoys of the US presidency Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner with Vladimir Putin, which did not bring the end of the war in Ukraine any closer, again demanded written guarantees from NATO for non-expansion. "Behind words that are so important to us (oral promises from the alliance. TMT) there should be actions to, in fact, probably document the non-expansion of NATO," the representative of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told Channel One (quoted from RIA Novosti).
According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance had already promised Moscow not to include new member states, but in the end, "NATO expanded eastward five or six times." Russia communicated its demand for non-enlargement of NATO to Washington before the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Putin, in turn, repeatedly complained about the countries of the alliance, which, according to the head of state, "deceived us, cheated us, rudely, as our people say, 'threw us' simply because of the non-expansion of NATO to the East."
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