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A Russian service worker takes portion successful drills astatine the Kadamovskiy firing scope successful the Rostov portion successful confederate Russia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. Russian unit attraction adjacent Ukraine has raised Ukrainian and Western concerns of a imaginable penetration that Moscow has dismissed. (AP Photo)

MOSCOW – A elder Russian diplomat warned the United States and its NATO allies Friday that their ain information would endure if they “torpedo” providing Russia with definite subject guarantees.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the West to supply guarantees that would preclude NATO from expanding to Ukraine oregon deploying troops and weapons there. Putin brought it up during a video call with U.S. President Joe Biden this week.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said during a quality league Friday that portion it would beryllium “naïve” to expect to get those information guarantees soon, Moscow remains committed to seeing them made.

“If our opponents connected the different broadside — archetypal and foremost the U.S., but besides different countries, allies, the alleged allies of the U.S. — refuse, effort to torpedo the full thing, they volition inevitably brushwood a further worsening of their ain information situation,” Ryabkov said.

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Tensions betwixt Moscow and the West person worsened successful caller weeks implicit a Russian unit buildup adjacent the border with Ukraine that stoked fears astir a imaginable invasion. Russian officials person repeatedly denied plans to onslaught Ukraine and successful crook blamed Kyiv for its ain allegedly assertive designs.

Ukraine is not a NATO subordinate but has strong backing from the subject alliance. Ryabkov said Friday that NATO's subject infrastructure is getting “as adjacent arsenic possible” to Russia “despite warnings.”

Ryabkov urged NATO to "seriously consider" Russia's connection of a moratorium connected deploying short- and intermediate-rage missiles successful Europe, saying Moscow considers specified deployments “a nonstop way to accelerating confrontation.”

“Before it’s excessively late, we request to debar a caller rocket situation successful Europe,” the lawman overseas curate said.

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After his telephone with Putin, Biden announced aboriginal talks betwixt the U.S., its apical NATO allies and Russia to code immoderate of Moscow’s information concerns.

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