HSE Professor: “Russia can intervene. Everything will depend on Ukraine"
So far, negotiations on security guarantees between the Russian Federation and the United States have not brought any results, but there are points on which it is quite possible to agree.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said HSE professor Evgeniy Buzhinsky.
“The negotiations did not bring any results. There are assessments by Sergei Ryabkov and Alexander Grushko - they say, they are businesslike and professional. There are, of course, points on which it is quite possible to agree - exercises, non-deployment of missiles. All other Russian demands were rejected. Then everything will depend on Ukraine. If there is an escalation on its part, then Russia will have to intervene,” Buzhinsky told Izvestia.
Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation to the Russia-NATO Council, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, said that the Russian Federation already feels “real threats to its security.”
“We will take all necessary measures to fend off these threats by military means, if political means fail,” Grushko emphasized after the negotiations.
A similar statement was made by Deputy Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who headed the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Geneva. According to him, if “things go completely in the direction of provoking Russia,” Moscow may resort to measures “through the Navy.”
Let us recall that the Russian Foreign Ministry published draft documents proposed by the United States on security guarantees between NATO and Russia. Among other things, Moscow proposed that the United States exclude further expansion of NATO to the east, withdraw forces and assets to the 1997 borders, and also refuse to deploy strike weapons systems near Russian borders. Moscow assured that they would not renounce any of the three points. At the same time, NATO said they were ready to discuss only the proposal on the non-deployment of strike weapons.
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