This was stated on Twitter by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Joseph Burel.

Burel said that on behalf of all EU countries he sent a response to the Russian Foreign Ministry on proposals for security guarantees.

"Tensions and differences must be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy," Barrel wrote.

A statement from Barel on the European External Action Service's website said that in response, the European Union proposed continuing the dialogue with Russia to strengthen common security.

Russia wants to divide the European Union

The European Union on Thursday accused Russia of fomenting the Ukrainian crisis and trying to divide EU members by sending letters to individual European states asking them to clarify their position on international security principles.

EU Foreign Minister Joseph Burel said he had responded to letters sent by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to several European countries asking them to interpret the doctrine of "indivisible security".

Burel said he had responded to Lavrov on behalf of the entire European bloc.

"The EU has a common foreign and security policy, and our goal is to act together on all issues of common interest," he said.

"This also includes coordinating responses to letters."

Burel noted that his move received "unanimous" support among all 27 EU member states.

Lavrov specifically asked that the countries he appealed to answer on their own behalf, not on behalf of the European Union.

However, Burel said in response that EU members are free to decide how they want to respond to Moscow's requests.

"Only those who are interested in dividing us can question such a decision," he said.

In December last year, Russia proposed a draft agreement on mutual guarantees with NATO.

Among other things, Moscow wants to ban the further expansion of the alliance, to refuse to conduct any military activities in Ukraine, other Eastern European countries, the Caucasus and Central Asia, proposes to abandon the deployment of medium-range and short-range missiles based in their areas. capable of hitting targets in the territory of other parties to the agreement.

The threat of Russia's attack on Ukraine

• According to US intelligence on January 7, 2022, more than 100,000 Russian troops are on Russia's border with Ukraine.

  Additional fighter jets were also spotted there.

• Russian authorities deny the possibility of invasion and say that the movement of troops inside the country is a "sovereign right" of Russia.

  Moscow calls reports of the invasion "an unjustified escalation of tensions."

• Russian authorities have begun talks with the United States and NATO on security guarantees in Europe.

  According to Russian demands, the United States should not establish military bases in the territory of the former Soviet Union, which are not members of NATO, and the alliance should stop expanding to the east.

  In particular, Russia has demanded not to admit Ukraine to NATO.

  Representatives of the alliance have already called these demands unacceptable.

• On January 18, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said that Belarusian-Russian maneuvers near the Ukrainian border would begin on February 10.

  Part of the forces and means of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, as well as military authorities, a number of military units and subdivisions of the Eastern Military District of the Armed Forces of Russia will be involved in them.

• It also became known that Russia on January 5 evacuated at least 18 members of the families of Russian diplomats from Ukraine.

  About 30 more people left the Russian Embassy in Kyiv and the consulate in Lviv in the coming days.

• Since 2014, the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea has been occupied by Russia, parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including their main cities captured by militants of the self-proclaimed "DPR" and "LPR", supported by Moscow with the help of Russian regular troops.

• Despite repeated declarations of silence, shelling continues on the line of demarcation, often injuring and killing Ukrainian servicemen.

• The United States, Canada, Britain and other countries have sent weapons to Ukraine.

  Germany, which had previously defended the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project, refused to supply weapons and blocked supplies from Estonia, saying it was a German-made weapon.

  Berlin agreed to send only a field hospital to Ukraine.

• On January 25, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a statement to the international community urging it to prevent blackmail and threats of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in exchange for guarantees of NATO non-proliferation and prevention of Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations.