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Russia pledged on Tuesday to ‘drastically’ reduce its military operations around the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv and Ukraine proposed that it will not seek to join NATO or host foreign military bases but would need international guarantees that it will be protected from attack. In 2014, Ukraine voted to drop its neutral membership and seek NATO membership after Russia annexed Crimea.
