BREAKING: The Russian Foreign Ministry says the U.S. has delivered a written response to Moscow’s security demands on Ukraine and NATO. The U.S. hasn’t made its response public, but already has warned that Russia’s top demands are unacceptable.
In this photo taken from video and released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, the Russian navy's frigate Admiral Essen prepares to sail off for an exercise in the Black Sea. Russia has launched a series of drills amid the tensions over Ukraine and deployed an estimated 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian territory that fueled Western fears of an invasion.
Russia has warned it would quickly take “retaliatory measures” if the U.S. and its allies reject its demands. “If the West continues its aggressive course, Moscow will take the necessary retaliatory measures,” Lavrov said. The countries’ defense ministries were planning more contacts to bolster military cooperation, Russia’s ambassador to Cuba Andrei Guskov told the Interfax news agency.for potential deployment to Europe. Western nations have also sent planeloads of weapons to help Ukraine strengthen its defenses.Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that while the concentration of Russian troops near Ukraine poses a threat, “their number is now insufficient for a large-scale offensive.
His comments were latest from Ukrainian officials seeking to reassure their citizens. Speaking late Tuesday in speech to the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was “strong enough to keep everything under control and derail any attempts at destabilization.” Presidential advisers from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany were in Paris to discuss ways to revive a stalled peace agreement forIn 2014, following the ouster of a Kremlin-friendly president in Kyiv, Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in the country’s eastern industrial heartland. Fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels has killed over 14,000 people, and efforts to reach a settlement have stalled.
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