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Ukraine which came into existence after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 has had tension on its border with Russia for a long time now. Crimea has been under Russian occupation since 2014.
Vladimir Putin’s lead envoy framed the conflict in Ukraine as a domestic matter that the United States and its allies had escalated into an international crisis, a face-off in which neither side could afford to back down.
"The situation was further escalated by US attempts to probe the security of Russian strategic facilities declared under New START by helping the Kiev regime to carry out armed attacks on them," Sergey Ryabkov pointed out
The Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the New START Treaty) was signed in 2010 and entered into force on February 5, 2011
Bill Richardson would advise the Russian and US governments to "try to decouple a lot of these geopolitical intentions from humanitarian cases and let the legal systems work their way"