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Withdrawal of troops from Ukraine continues, says Moscow – Delivered response to security guarantees

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The Russian troops continued to return to bases and today after the completion of the exercises in which they participated in areas adjacent to Ukraine, it is stated in a statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The first units that participated in the exercises began to reach their campssaid today the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Kanashenkov.

According to Kanashenkov, all their units Russian armed forces, including those in Belarus, will return to their bases upon completion of the exercises.

“After the end of the exercises, its formations and military units Of the Russian Federation “They will return, as always, to their permanent camps,” Kanasenkov said

The ministry also said that the troops moved to Belarus to participate in joint military exercises with Minsk from 10-20 February will also return to their bases thereafter.

In the meantime, the United States received a response from Russia to Washington’s security proposals on Thursday, a senior US State Department official said, adding that the response had been delivered to US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan in Moscow.

Earlier, the Russian news agency TASS reported that US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan had left the Foreign Ministry building without comment, recalling that earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had met with Di Maio said Russia’s response to the US proposals on security issues would be forwarded to US officials later in the day.

In fact, as Lavrov stated, the proposals for security guarantees will be made public in order to avoid “misinterpretation”.

However, Moscow has asked for guarantees that its neighbor Ukraine will not join NATO, but the United States and the Alliance itself have so far refused to comply with this request.

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