Vladimir Putin told Boris Johnson that he wants to negotiate immediately to ensure a clear legal agreement that NATO will not expand eastAccording to the Kremlin’s call to the two leaders on Monday, Putin said that a meeting is needed to discuss NATO’s future intentions and clarify Ukraine’s plans in the east of the country.
This call marks the first time the two have spoken before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in October. Johnson expressed Britain’s “deep concern for Russia’s build-up of troops on the Ukrainian border” and warned him that “any destabilizing action will be a strategic error and will have major consequences.” The British Prime Minister also called for the settlement of these issues through diplomatic channels.
The Kremlin’s longer reading of the phone cited specific examples of what it described as the destructive destruction of the Minsk agreement in Kiev, which was designed to resolve the dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
Putin stated that the Ukrainian authorities deliberately intensified the situation on the line of contact and used heavy weapons and attack drones that are prohibited by the Minsk package of measures in the conflict zone.
He also claimed that Russian speakers are still being discriminated against in Ukraine.
Putin stated that he hopes to reach a clear international legal agreement that excludes any further Then Push eastward and remove weapons that threaten Russia in neighboring countries (mainly Ukraine). He added that Russia is preparing clear legal documents to support its request.
The leaders agreed to continue discussing the issues raised through various channels.
It’s not clear whether the talks represent Putin’s recent meeting with US President Joe Biden -This alone has not made much progress.
Privately, Western leaders still exist Confused about Putin’s intentions, But worried that the level of speech and increasingly widespread demands from Russia are creating conditions for a serious threat of war-not just a test of Western determination. Others believe that Putin’s decision to test the determination and unity of the West may be due to Angela Merkel’s resignation as Chancellor of Germany.
The increasing tension in Ukraine comes at a time when the arms control agreement and strategic stability dialogue between the two countries are being severely eroded.Russia threatens to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles Europe In response to its claimed NATO plan to do the same thing.
The threat issued by the Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (Sergei Ryabkov) marked the possible return of the European nuclear missile standoff in the 1980s, when the US Pershing missile was in a long-range confrontation with the Russian SS20 missile.
During that tense period, when Moscow began to believe that NATO’s Able Archer exercise in 1983 was a prelude to an attack, the world was close to a nuclear war. After the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1987, these missiles were withdrawn.
Donald Trump Withdrawal to the U.S. After the 2019 INF treaty Years of U.S. complaints Russia cheated by manufacturing and deploying 9M729 medium-range missiles. Russia denies the allegation, claiming that the missile’s range is legal.
Ryabukov told the Russian RIA news agency that if NATO refuses to participate in the negotiations, Moscow will deploy nuclear missiles.
NATO has stated that there is no plan to bring nuclear missiles back to Europe, but Ryabkov stated that Russia has “complete lack of trust” in the alliance, and pointed out that the 56th Artillery Command of the United States was reorganized last month and that the command is responsible. Operating missile battery packs. Europe didn’t stop until 1991.
Ryabkov said: “The lack of progress in political and diplomatic solutions to this problem will result in our response being of a military and technical military nature.” “They are not allowed to do anything by themselves that can increase our security in some way. The thing-they believe they can act according to their needs, to their advantage, we just have to swallow it all and deal with it. This will not continue.”
He claimed that Russia is currently suspending intermediate-range nuclear missiles, and NATO disputes this. The United States claimed that Russia deployed two battalions of 9m729 missiles in 2017, one in the southwest and the other in an unknown location.
Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (Pavel Podvig), said that he believes that Ryabkov’s threat involves another medium-range weapon, RS-26. Moscow shelved in 2018.
“I will not overestimate the importance of the 56th Artillery Command, but if the US/NATO continues to deploy its own missiles, Russia can deploy RS-26,” Podwig is responsible for an independent research project. Russian nuclear power, Add to. “And I want to point out that although the US missiles will be conventional missiles, Russia may deploy missiles with nuclear warheads. I don’t know why anyone in NATO thinks this is a good development.”
