I saw the news that in November there will be talks on cessation of hostilities. I hope so.

Nazi shit.

Did NATO ‘betray' Russia by expanding to the East?

The Kremlin claims the West broke a promise it made in the 1990s not to expand NATO, and is now using this claim to justify threats to invade Ukraine.

One of Russia's consistent demands has been for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to stop expanding to the east and pledge never to include Kiev in the security alliance. But NATO has long insisted it has an open-door policy to any nation that meets its criteria for membership.

The United States and NATO dismissed Moscow's security demands as nonstarters in a written response to the Kremlin delivered last week by the US ambassador to Russia.

While the current standoff between Russia and the West is based on many grievances, the narrative of Western betrayal has featured prominently in Moscow's rhetoric for decades.

In a speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Vladimir Putin accused Western powers of violating a solemn pledge by considerably enlarging NATO - most notably with the Baltic countries joining the Alliance in 2004 - asking, "What happened to the assurances our Western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?"