Contentious security guarantees Moscow is seeking include a ban on Ukraine from entering Nato
Russia has put forward a highly contentious list of security guarantees it says it wants in order to lower tensions in Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine, including many elements that have already been ruled out by the west.
The demands include a ban on Ukraine from entering Nato and a limit to the deployment of troops and weapons to Nato’s eastern flank, in effect returning Nato forces to where they were stationed in 1997, before an eastward expansion.
