The Kremlin has stated the need to document NATO's refusal to expand eastward.
Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov suggested confirming everything on paper.
He recalled that verbal promises about the non-expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance had already been broken several times. "It was during the time of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. After that, NATO expanded eastward five or six times," Peskov noted in response to Channel One. Therefore, words that are important to Russia must be backed up with concrete actions and legal documentation of guarantees for non-expansion of the bloc, he concluded.