Moscow is prepared to continue the constructive dialogue with Washington on Ukraine and is offering the United States and NATO an alternative to the new Cuban Missile Crisis-style scenario that has to be avoided, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said as quoted by Russian media.
Ryabkov stressed the importance of the avoiding new missile crisis in Europe in a timely manner, before the medium- and short-range missiles appear in these territories which would be a direct route to escalating the confrontation.
Russia is apparently offering, in return for legal guarantees, non-deployment of these kinds of weapons near its borders, the withdrawal of destabilizing forces and assets which inflame the situation and avoiding provocative measures, including various drills.
According to Ryabkov, Moscow will continue to use all available resources to push forward with dialogue with NATO on security issues and to use any opportunity to build up common sense in this area, pointing it can’t understand the actions of the US and its European that do nothing to strengthen their own security.
The diplomat stressed that the dialogue Russia offers would include a proposal on the reciprocal verifiable moratorium on the development of new ground-to-ground missile systems banned under the 1987 INF Treaty the US walked out on unilaterally in 2019.
Ryabkov also noted indirectly that Russia is alarmed by NATO’s eastward expansion and Ukraine’s prospects of joining the alliance, saying that would be unacceptable for Russia since its to the detriment of Russia’s security interests.
The diplomat stressed that the latest Western threats of new sanctions against Russia are unacceptable, suggesting that NATO uses threats and military pressure against anyone who disagrees with their claims of “exceptional righteousness.”
He also expressed hope that the majority of the Washington establishment is not in favor of war with Russia, in reference to Sen. Wicker’s urging Biden not to rule out first use nuclear action against Russia.
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