The United States and the NATO Western security alliance have responded to Russia’s security demands in separate written statements amid continued diplomatic efforts to reach a resolution over the situation in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.
Russia in December 2021 demanded NATO to never add Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations as members, and also demanded NATO members to pull back troop deployments in Central and Eastern Europe. Moscow has since also sent an estimated 100,000 troops with tanks and other heavy weapons to its borders with Ukraine’s northeast but denies it is planning an attack.
