Russia will not transfer military information to the OSCE due to its transfer to the Ukrainian armed forces TASS With reference to Nikolai Kobrinets, Director of the All-European Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
It was announced in July 2022 that the Czech Republic refused to provide information on obligations under VD-2011, Ukraine completely stopped publishing this information, and 29 other countries did not send separate notifications. In addition, many countries, including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Poland and France, have banned Russian representatives from inspecting their military bases.
Kobrinets explained that this shook the foundations of the Vienna Document and became an additional source of intelligence for the West.
“We know how the Ukrainian Armed Forces are used in the interests of the national battalions and mercenaries in Ukraine. Under these conditions, Russia considered it impossible to provide information on the military forces, the main weapons and equipment systems, as well as the plans for the deployment of these systems, envisaged in Part I of VD-2011, and reported to the OSCE: the relevant decision,” the diplomat concluded.
Nikolai Kobrinets, former Director of the Department for European Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declarationThere is a chance that the European security system will be reset, but this moment will not come anytime soon.
Source: Gazeta
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