NATO fails to contact Russia via conflict resolution line – CNN

The alliance tried to get in touch with the Russian leadership after the troops of the aggressor state struck at the west of Ukraine.

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NATO unsuccessfully tried to contact the Russian Federation via a hotline established to resolve conflicts, as well as through letters, since the strikes of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were spread towards the territory of the Alliance. This was announced on Wednesday, March 16, by military officials of the organization, transmits CNN.

“Of course, we are trying to contact them. But it takes two (parties) to communicate,” an Alliance spokesman said.

The US also has a separate hotline to resolve conflicts with the Russian Federation, officials said, which they have tested to work, but it has not yet been used in practice.

Comments on attempts to establish contact with the Russian Federation were made against the backdrop of attacks by Russian troops on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in the village of Starichi, Yavorivsky district, Lviv region. In this regard, the Alliance has concerns about the potential spread of hostilities to a member country of the organization.

At the same time, answering a question about Poland’s call to send NATO forces to Ukraine on a peacekeeping mission, representatives of the Alliance called such a plan “untenable.”

“We see two nation-states that are at war. If they agree on a reliable and lasting peace settlement, I do not see the need for a peacekeeping mission,” the official said.

Recall that on Tuesday, March 15, following the results of the visit to Kyiv, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Yaroslav Kaczynski offered to send a NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine to resolve the situation that arose as a result of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

We also wrote that, according to the Financial Times Ukraine and Russia have prepared a plan of 15 pointswhich provides for the establishment of a ceasefire.

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