They have warned that Russia is attempting to re-establish a sphere of influence in the region and view the document as proof Moscow is seeking to limit their sovereignty.Ī senior US official said on Friday that the Kremlin knows that some parts of its proposals were “unacceptable”. Those proposals are likely to be viewed extremely negatively by Nato countries, in particular Poland and the Baltic states. Russia has also demanded that Nato rule out further expansion, including the accession of Ukraine into the alliance, and that it does not hold drills without previous agreement from Russia in Ukraine, eastern Europe, in Caucasus countries such as Georgia or in Central Asia.
They include a demand that Nato remove any troops or weapons deployed to countries that entered the alliance after 1997, which would include much of eastern Europe, including Poland, the former Soviet countries of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Balkan countries. The demands, spelled out by Moscow in full for the first time, were handed over to the US this week. But the Kremlin’s aggressive proposals are likely to be rejected in western capitals as an attempt to formalise a new Russian sphere of influence over eastern Europe.
Vladimir Putin has demanded that the west provide Russia “legal guarantees” of its security.
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