The United States (US) responded to Russia. It formally rejected its demand that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) withdraw from Eastern Europe and block Ukraine from joining the alliance. Still, they offered nuclear arms control and limits on military exercises where they were ready to bargain. The US government and NATO issued written responses. They provided Russian President Vladimir V. Putin with a choice to enter negotiations with Washington and its allies, including Ukraine, or proceed with an attack and face devastating economic sanctions.

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The written responses normalise positions that the US and NATO have declared since President Putin had demanded weeks ago while pressing Russian troops along Ukraine’s eastern border. Putin guaranteed that Ukraine would never join NATO, and he wanted NATO allies to remove all troops and nuclear weapons from former Soviet republics and nations that once were a part of the Warsaw Pact. In a brief speech, US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said that the responses from the US and NATO were drafted together and approved by President Biden after weeks of talks with allies and Ukraine.