“Sergey Viktorovich, we agreed with you today that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will present its views on the answers we received to our proposals sent to our American colleagues in Washington and colleagues from the North Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, regarding the organization of issues related to with security in Europe, and a response to our concerns related to the endless, in our opinion, and very dangerous expansion of NATO to the east,” Putin said.
Earlier, Putin, during a press conference, said that NATO was cheating on the issue of non-expansion of the alliance to the east.
The head of state said that Russia was "swindled, simply brazenly deceived."
Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov noted that NATO's eastward expansion runs counter to the principle of the indivisibility of security in Europe.