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🇷🇺 Moscow floats non-aggression pacts with individual NATO members, as Medinsky says Europe's security order was the real topic in Abu Dhabi Russia has started to put its own vision for Europe's security on paper, and it works country by country. Alexey Drobinin, head of foreign policy planning at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told a security forum on Wednesday that Moscow sees three models. The first is a defensive alliance or bilateral mutual assistance treaties, like those Russia has with Belarus and North Korea. The second is a political pledge not to help each other's adversaries in case of aggression, like Moscow's pact with Iran. The third is bilateral non-aggression pacts. "For example, agreements of this kind could be reached, among other things, with individual NATO member states, which would then receive, for instance, additional individual security guarantees from the Russian Federation," Drobinin said, according to video of the speech reported by Reuters. TASS quoted him as framing it under the principle of "equal and indivisible security," the same language Moscow used in its December 2021 treaty drafts before the full-scale invasion. The timing is deliberate. Vladimir Medinsky said a new security framework for Europe had been the central theme of the two days of talks in Abu Dhabi, according to Reuters, though he gave no details. US officials have said they are open to discussing Europe's overall security architecture. Some European politicians reject that, arguing a ceasefire in Ukraine must come first. The appeal for Moscow is obvious. Separate deals with individual allies would offer each capital a private Russian guarantee and quietly weaken NATO's collective commitment under Article 5. No NATO government had publicly responded in the reports reviewed, and Drobinin's remarks are a proposal from a Foreign Ministry official, not an offer tabled in the talks as far as is known. For the US, the question is how far the Abu Dhabi track drifts into redesigning European security while Washington is also floating an "Article 5-like" guarantee for Ukraine. For Europeans, it is whether they can shape that conversation before others do it for them. What to watch: whether Kushner and Witkoff hear the same menu from Putin in Moscow on Thursday, and how NATO capitals respond in Dublin. Video: "WE ACHIEVED FULL MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING", Putin on CSTO security talks.