(News) The Kremlin spokesman assures that Putin "is willing to negotiate" on security guarantees

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Dmitri Peskov specified in his comments for CNN that the situation around Ukraine is only "part of the problem."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov reiterated on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "is willing to negotiate" with the US and NATO on security guarantees.

"First of all, President Putin has always demanded negotiations and diplomacy. He initiated the issue of security guarantees for the Russian Federation. And Ukraine is only part of the problem: it is part of the larger problem of security guarantees for the Russian Federation. Russia. And, of course, President Putin is willing to negotiate," the presidential spokesman told the US network CNN. Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed during a meeting with Putin that the responses of the Atlantic Alliance and Washington do not satisfy Russia, although there is still the possibility of reaching an agreement.

The chancellor specified that Moscow formulated in 10 pages its reaction to the responses of the US and NATO, and that Russia will continue to demand that its opposition to the expansion of the military bloc to the east, including Ukraine's accession plans, be addressed. to the Atlantic Alliance.

The answers to the proposals delivered by Moscow last December ignore above all the questions of the non-expansion of NATO, the non-deployment of attack forces on Ukrainian territory and the return of the configuration of the military bloc to the state of 1997, when signed the Founding Act between Russia and NATO.

Instead, NATO and the US focused on targeting the points of least urgency. Thus, many of its initiatives coincide with the proposals that Moscow had made long ago, Lavrov pointed out.
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