National security adviser Jake Sullivan says diplomatic discussions with Russia were “frank and direct.”
“We have been very clear with Russia on the costs and consequences of further military action or destabilization in Ukraine.” https://t.co/I2Uefa27hY pic.twitter.com/1HzDr7NzVl
—ABC News Politics ( @ABC Politics) January , 2022
The declaration is given after Russia increased the intensity of its dispute with the West over the Ukraine issue, and the expansion of NATO, then that the Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said that “he could neither confirm nor rule out” the possibility of his country sending military assets to Latin America, if The US and its allies did not end their military activities near their territory.
“Everything depends on the actions of our US counterparts ”, he said in a television interview. He also mentioned the possibility that Moscow could take unspecified “military technical measures”
Quoted by The Associated Press, Carlos Alzugaray, former diplomat and international policy analyst, assures that “there is no threat that this It is not a plan, but simply a warning for the Americans to put themselves in the place of the Russians. Of course this is going to have implications, since the networks are hot”.
He adds: “obviously the question is what Cuba thinks of that, and I think it will keep quiet, even in the most likely case that the Russians have consulted” the island.
Ryabkov was part of the Russian delegation in the talks with the United States earlier in the week. The West fears that the increase in Russian military activities near Ukraine will precede an invasion
. In 2014, Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, but denies having plans to attack the country neighbor.
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