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The United States

and

have formally responded to the security guarantees demanded by

, extending the hand of diplomacy but warning that there will be "serious consequences" for

if it opts for a new invasion of

.

Amid the escalation of tensions due to the concentration of Russian troops on the border with

, both

and the Atlantic Alliance have met the deadline set last week to respond to Moscow.

The US letter was delivered in Moscow by US Ambassador to Russia

at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Likewise, the

meeting between

opened this Wednesday a tenuous

to advance in the de-escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev over the

However, the meeting of the so-called "Normandy Format" did not, and cannot, deal with another Russian "red line": its veto of Ukraine joining NATO, nor did it talk about the more than

that Moscow has deployed along its border with Ukraine.

The meeting of political advisers of the leaders of the four countries lasted eight and a half hours and was at times "difficult", according to several of the parties, although in the end they managed to agree

for the first time in more than two years.

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Russia announces new negotiations on Ukraine in two weeks in Berlin

The talks between Russia and Ukraine in Paris, in the midst of an upsurge in tension on the border, "were not easy" and will continue with a new round in two weeks in Berlin, the Kremlin's envoy, Dmitri Kozak, announced on Wednesday.

"We need an additional pause. We hope that this process will have results in two weeks," Kozak added at a press conference, after meeting for eight hours with diplomatic advisers from Ukraine, France and Germany.

"The next meeting is scheduled for the second week of February in Berlin," confirmed a German government source.

In a joint statement, the so-called Normandy Quartet, created in 2014 to seek a way out of the crisis in Ukraine, reaffirmed its support for the Minsk peace agreements "as a basis for work" and promised to try to "mitigate" the disagreements .

"Despite all differences of interpretation," the participants agreed that "all parties must maintain the ceasefire" in eastern Ukraine "under the agreements," the Russian envoy added.

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