Russia makes sweeping demands for security guarantees from US amid Ukraine tensions

Russia is making ambitious demands from the U.S. and NATO, calling for security guarantees amid fears Moscow will invade Ukraine.

Russia published a list of sweeping new security guarantees it wants from the United States and NATO on Friday -- including a promise not to expand the alliance -- staking out demands for de-escalating the crisis it has stoked around Ukraine.

The radical proposals would rewrite the post-Cold War security order in Europe, obliging the U.S. and NATO to commit to not admitting any new members, including Ukraine, but also effectively prohibiting any NATO military activity in Eastern Europe and most of the former Soviet Union.

The demands were presented in two draft treaties that Russia's foreign ministry published on Friday, with Russia saying it had passed them to the Biden administration earlier this week.

But the U.S. and NATO countries have already previously ruled out Russian demands for a veto on the alliance's expansion and on Friday a senior Biden administration official immediately rejected the two key Russian proposals to bar Ukraine from ever joining or NATO expanding farther eastward.