No one has expressed objections to the involvement of the United States in the negotiation process to resolve the situation in Ukraine, in fact, Washington is already actively influencing Ukrainians, but now it is trying to create problems, said Deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

Withdrawal from various arms agreements is always a bad decision, but if the United States does not provide Russia with guarantees of strategic security, then dialogue on the extension of such agreements, for example, on the limitation of strategic offensive arms, will be extremely difficult, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with leading Russian media, including RIA Novosti.

The US can supply Kiev with strike weapons on a bilateral basis, he said

Moscow understands perfectly well that NATO's guaranteed refusal to move further to the borders of the Russian Federation will not ensure Russia's security, since Ukraine, for example, can receive shock weapons on a bilateral basis from the United States, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

Cuba and Venezuela are seeking to normalize relations with the United States, so the deployment of Russian military infrastructure on their territory is out of the question, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Russia and China do not seek to conclude a military alliance, but this does not exclude their cooperation in the military sphere, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, explained to his Chinese counterpart the global security and economic risks in the event of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, said that China stands for resolving the Ukrainian issue on the basis of the Minsk agreements.

Russia should work out concrete, including forceful methods of influencing NATO, since by their responses the Alliance and the United States actually rejected Moscow's proposals on security guarantees, said Vladimir Vinokurov, Vice President of the League of Military Diplomats, professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The North Atlantic Alliance's response to Russia's security demands does not contain major concessions.

This was reported by the DPA agency, citing unnamed diplomatic sources. "NATO's response to Russia, according to sources, should not be published. According to diplomats, it does not contain big concessions," the message says.

The content of the US response on security guarantees allows us to count on a serious conversation, but on secondary topics, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

In NATO's response to Russia's proposals on security guarantees, "there are no serious concessions," the DPA news agency reports, citing sources in the alliance. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

NATO has submitted its proposals to Russia in response to Moscow's initiatives on security guarantees in Europe, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace will soon meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, BBC News reports.

The CSTO is ready to provide Bishkek and Dushanbe with the necessary assistance in resolving the conflict

Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Stanislav Zas called on the Tajik and Kyrgyz sides to immediately cease fire on the border between these countries, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov told reporters on Thursday.

Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Stanislav Zas called on the Tajik and Kyrgyz sides to immediately cease fire on the border between these countries.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus Viktor Gulevich said that when developing the idea of checking the reaction forces of the Union State on the territory of the republic, an analysis of the development of events that took place around Belarus in 2020, the crisis situation in Kazakhstan was taken into account.

The joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus "Allied Resolve-2022" are defensive in nature and do not pose a threat to the European community and neighboring countries, First Deputy Defense Minister of the republic Viktor Gulevich said. His words are quoted by the press service.

Nikolai Chub and Anna Kikina previously received American visas

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that he did not have time to "buy ink" to write a letter about the non-issuance of an American visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, there is no more problem.

Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, said that all parties should be guided by the "Minsk agreements", and then there will be no need to support Donbass and Ukraine with weapons or finances.

At the Jibab training ground in the Syrian province of Derya, the Syrian military, under the control of Russian instructors, demonstrated their combat capability.