Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the US written response to Russia's security proposals.

According to the State Department, Blinken stressed " the US willingness, bilaterally and together with Allies and partners, to continue a substantive exchange with Russia on mutual security concerns, which we intend to do in full coordination with our partners and Allies.  He further reiterated the U.S. commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the right of all countries to determine their own foreign policy and alliances.  The Secretary urged immediate Russian de-escalation and the withdrawal of troops and equipment from Ukraine’s borders.  He emphasized that further invasion of Ukraine would be met with swift and severe consequences and urged Russia to pursue a diplomatic path.," the report said.

In turn, Sergei Lavrov said at the end of the conversation that the West is trying to completely forget about the key principle of the indivisibility of security, this was stated in the Russian letter to the foreign ministers of OSCE countries.

He said that the key principle of international law agreed in the Euro-Atlantic space, Western colleagues are trying to ignore, not even ignore, but completely forget, According to Lavrov, the US and NATO's reaction to the key question - about the honest fulfillment of the agreements on the indivisibility of security, which were achieved within the framework of the OSCE in Istanbul in 1999 and in Astana in 2010, was negative. These agreements, Lavrov stressed, provided not only freedom of choice of alliances, but conditioned free choice of alliances on the need to avoid steps to strengthen security at the expense of the security of others. According to him, this key principle of international law, agreed in the Euro-Atlantic space, about the inadmissibility of strengthening security at the expense of the security of others, the West is trying to ignore completely.