Ukraine Crisis: ‘Without Security Guarantees Russia Will Have to Deter Opponents’, Says Sergey Ryabkov

In the event of the failure to reach agreements on security guarantees Moscow will be forced to turn to other means of ensuring the necessary balance of forces and “deterring opponents,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Sunday. “NATO declares indivisibility [of security] only in the format of its ‘gathering’, being vain of this fact – just listen to the statements made by NATO representatives, read their documents. But we have not committed ourselves to all this, with another line and the basic agreement being obvious to us. This means that in a situation similar to the…