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NATO for the first time in history launches the Multinational Response Force
Through a videoconference held this Friday, the US president, Joe Biden and the other representatives of the Alliance, reached agreements to deploy defensive units in the eastern region of Europe.
This NATO emergency meeting takes place after the invocation of Article 4 of the Washington treaty, which allows general consultations when any of the members considers that its territorial integrity, security or independence may be in danger.
In the statement, with the company of Sweden and Finland, the allies said that peace in Europe has been violated.
Alliance Supreme Commander Tod Wolters announced that the Multinational Response Force would be activated for the first time in history.
This force would be made up of land, sea, air and special operations soldiers from all NATO members so that they can be deployed effectively in defense of the countries belonging to the Alliance.
Biden assured that this deployment of US soldiers is in support of the Eastern European region to reinforce NATO nations and not to enter Ukrainian territory.
A third of the Russian army is already inside Ukraine
Internal Pentagon sources have assured that Moscow has already allocated almost a third of the troops that were deployed around the border with Ukraine.
In the weeks leading up to the invasion, the Kremlin had amassed almost 200,000 troops around the entire border with Ukraine, where they also included hospital personnel.
Russia assures that Ukraine does not want to negotiate
This Friday, Moscow denounced that Ukraine is refusing to sit down at the dialogue table, even after Russia accepted the proposal of Kiev, who suggested the Belarusian capital to negotiate.
Dmitri Peskov, a spokesman for Russia, pointed out that Ukraine had put Warsaw on the table, as an alternate city to hold the negotiations, but after a few seconds "they broke all communications."
From Russia they consider that this "pause" in communications represents the withdrawal of missile systems in residential areas throughout Ukraine, including Kiev. For Russia, this situation is “extremely dangerous”.
The Kremlin showed its willingness this Friday to send a commission to Minsk to begin dialogue with Ukraine after Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky accepted the possibility of assuming a neutral position in the country and not joining NATO.
The representatives that Russia would send to Minsk would be made up of spokespersons from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Presidency.
Likewise, Peskov assured that the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is ready to establish all the necessary conditions for the start of dialogue between Ukraine and Russia in Minsk.
A few minutes before Peskov's announcement, in which he accused Kiev of procrastinating on the decision to host the dialogue process, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the Ukrainian military to take power in the government.
Putin assured that dialogue with the Ukrainian soldiers will facilitate the process and it would be "easier to reach an agreement" to end the Russian military operation that has been taking place on Ukrainian soil since Thursday.
