Putin demands security guarantees from NATO, US, again amid tension over Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again demanded security guarantees from NATO and the US amid Russia’s build-up of troops at the Ukrainian border.

He writes about this in a letter sent to Russian diplomats congratulating them on their professional day.

“The situation in the world is becoming even more tense and turbulent. This, of course, requires additional constant efforts to ensure strategic stability to address the challenges and threats. Comprehensive, legal guarantees are required  from the United States and its NATO allies,” Putin wrote in the letter.

Russia has earlier made demands to NATO and the US in what it calls national security guarantees.

Russia, in parallel with the creation of a crisis on the border with Ukraine, demanded NATO not to add Georgia and Ukraine as new members in the future and withdraw its forces from Eastern Europe.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken have said that NATO’s open door policy will not change.