Evidence

A search found a Yahoo News/European Pravda article that cites Reuters. It reports that Alexei Drobinin, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Planning Department, set out Russian ideas for a new European security architecture. The options he described were a collective defence alliance or bilateral mutual assistance agreements, political agreements not to support each other's adversaries, and bilateral non-aggression pacts with NATO countries. I did not find the original Reuters page. I found no Reuters, AFP, Bellingcat or EUvsDisinfo fact-check of this claim. The reporting names the Foreign Ministry, not the Defense Ministry, as the source.