U.S. to answer Russia demands on Ukraine today. Moscow signals it will reject response
With tensions rising over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration on Wednesday rejected Moscow’s main demands for easing the crisis, dampening hopes that diplomats can find a peaceful resolution to the standoff.told reporters that in a letter delivered Wednesday, the U.S. rebuffed Moscow’s insistence that NATO pledge to never admit the former Soviet republic into the transatlantic alliance and to halt troop deployments in Eastern Europe.
The U.S. letter drew an angry response from Moscow even before Blinken’s announcement confirming its delivery.Western embassies are also moving some of their staff out of Kyiv “An open door is an open door,” the department’s spokesman, Ned Price, said, referring to the alliance’s position that any nation has the sovereign right to apply to join.and the State Department has ordered the withdrawal of dependents of U.S. Embassy staff in Kyiv and some “nonessential” employees. The move comes as tens of thousands of Russian troops mass on Ukraine’s eastern and northern borders.
“Russia could do anything at any moment,” Kristina Kvien, the ranking U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, told reporters after overseeing the arrival of a weapons shipment. “It’s like a gun to the head of Ukraine. And we don’t think that Ukraine should have to live with a loaded gun to its head.”Slog of trench warfare in eastern Ukraine yields scenes reminiscent of World War I.
Blinken insisted Wednesday that all Western parties are united in their resolve to seriously punish Russia. His assurances come as several European countries, which have strong economic ties with Moscow, have signaled their hesitance about hitting Russia too hard. Germany, for example, is reliant on Russia for much of its oil and gas imports.
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