Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia will switch to counter-threat creation mode if NATO does not accept proposals on security guarantees

Russia will enter a counter-threat regime if NATO refuses to accept proposals for security guarantees.

According to Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko, the proposals are aimed at translating the military or military-technical scenario into a political process that will strengthen the military security of states in the OSCE, Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space.

“And if this does not work out, then we have already designated them (NATO – ed.), Then we will also switch to this mode of creating counter-threats, but then it will be too late to ask us why we made such decisions, why we placed such systems “, – said Glushko, quoted by TASS.

After the publication of the proposals of the Russian Federation, in his opinion, NATO will have to be fundamentally determined. “We have taken this step and proceed from the fact that it will no longer be possible to somehow brush it off, or ‘chatter’,” he said.

Earlier on Saturday, NATO’s Supreme Commander in Europe, US General Tod Walters, proposed expanding the alliance’s presence in Bulgaria and Romania.

This happened after the Russian Foreign Ministry published the drafts of a bilateral agreement on security guarantees and an agreement on security measures for the Russian Federation and the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance transferred to the United States.

The United States, according to the proposals, must undertake obligations to exclude further expansion of NATO in the eastern direction, to refuse to admit the former republics of the USSR into the alliance. Russia proposes to return to the previous format of interaction within the Russia-NATO Council, restore communication channels and stop considering each other as adversaries.