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Kremlin denies asking US to withdraw NATO from Europe's eastern front

2025-02-21 21:04:08Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Kremlin denies asking US to withdraw NATO from Europe's eastern front
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed on February 21 that Russia did not ask the US to withdraw troops from NATO's eastern flank during talks in Saudi Arabia.

The spokesman said this in reaction to a Financial Times article, which claimed that during talks in Riyadh on February 18, Russian delegates demanded the return of NATO as a condition for "normalizing relations."

"No, this is not true ," Peskov told reporters when asked about the allegations, the new state-run TASS agency reported.

"Our position on the expansion of NATO's military infrastructure over several waves towards our borders is a cause for concern for us. This position is well known; it is no secret to anyone," Peskov added.

These statements, made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, come after a senior Romanian presidential adviser appeared to say that Russian officials had made this request during high-level talks in Riyadh between delegations from Moscow and Washington.

Romanian official Cristian Diaconescu, who spoke to a television station in Romania, later retracted his statements, clarifying that such a request had been made in the past, in 2021, before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Russia has for years expressed anger, both publicly and privately, over the presence of NATO troops in countries such as the three Baltic states and Poland. It has also complained about NATO air defense systems in Poland and Romania. NATO’s eastward expansion – first in 1997 and then two rounds of enlargement in 2000 – was seen by many in the Kremlin as a hostile act and was partly used as a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine.

With the administration of US President Donald Trump signaling a radical new approach to European relations – he has repeated complaints that NATO members are not spending enough money on the alliance – there have been alarms in Europe that the Trump White House could concede to Russian demands.

Earlier this month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shocked the 32-member alliance when he openly ruled out Ukraine joining NATO and ruled out the possibility of US troops joining any peacekeeping effort in Ukraine. He also said that NATO would not come to the aid of any European country if it were involved in that effort and if it were attacked by Russia.


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