How they “threw” Russia, the growth of hospitalizations. Highlights of the day

Why Putin believes that NATO "threw" Russia, a double jump in hospitalizations, gas transit through Ukraine resumed in full - the main news of the day in the RBC review

Disputes about answers on security guarantees and whether to wait for Ukraine in NATO

The Foreign Ministry denied reports that Russia had given the US a response to US proposals for de-escalation. Lavrov explained that this was “the result of a misunderstanding” - Russia only drew the attention of the United States to the fact that Washington did not give an answer to the main questions that were raised in the Russian document on security guarantees.

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According to Lavrov, the principle of the indivisibility of security agreed upon in the Euro-Atlantic space, Western partners "are simply trying not to even ignore, but to consign to complete oblivion." “And to prevent this from happening, when we received a reaction from Washington to our initial proposals, I described in detail what we are now talking about with you in a separate message and sent it to all the foreign ministers of the OSCE states and a number of other states so that they knew our position,” he added. In the negotiations, Russia is trying to achieve a commitment on the part of NATO and the United States not to expand the alliance and, first of all, not to include post-Soviet countries in it. This is President Vladimir Putinpaid particular attention to the press conference following the talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Putin said that after the collapse of the USSR, Russia was "thrown" on this issue. “We were given promises not to advance the infrastructure one inch. They said one thing, they did another. Now NATO is in Poland, Romania, the Baltic countries. As our people say, they cheated, they cheated, ”the president believes.

Putin pointed to the danger of Ukraine's potential entry into the alliance. This increases the risk of a military clash between Russia and NATO. “It is written in the doctrinal documents of Ukraine that they want to return Crimea by military means. Let's imagine that Ukraine, a member of NATO, starts operations in Crimea (I'm not talking about Donbass). This is the sovereign territory of Russia. Should we fight the NATO bloc? Has anyone thought? It seems not," the president said.

Putin said that the United States ignored Russia's fundamental proposals Politics