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US diplomats deny possible reduction of military presence in Eastern Europe

ASV diplomats denied on Friday that the United States was ahead of talks with Russia next week Ukraine reduce the number of troops deployed in Eastern Europe.

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“The administration is not preparing for the possible withdrawal of forces from Eastern Europe,” the U.S. ambassador said on Twitter NATO Julian Smith, commenting on news broadcast by NBC that it is being considered in Poland and Baltic Reduction of US military contingents in exchange for Russia withdrawal of troops from the border with Ukraine.

“In fact, we have made it clear to Russia, publicly and privately, that if Russia invades Ukraine even deeper, we will step up [atbalstu] “our NATO partners in the eastern flank, against whom we have a sacred duty as allies,” said Ned Prais, a spokesman for the State Department.

Russia has concentrated a contingent of about 100,000 men on Ukraine’s borders, and the Kremlin has issued an ultimatum to the West demanding a halt to NATO’s further expansion to the east and the dismantling of the Alliance’s infrastructure in the so-called new member states on 27 May 1997. , that is, before the first enlargement of NATO.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin threatened that if Moscow did not receive the “security guarantees” he requested, he would have to take “military technical measures”.

Talks between the US and Russia on “security guarantees” demanded by Moscow are scheduled for Monday in Geneva.

Meanwhile, NATO has already called Putin’s ultimatum demands absurd.

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