President Joe Biden’s administration has “incorporated” Ukrainian government views into a forthcoming written response to Russia’s ominous demand for a ban on NATO expansion and a contraction of trans-Atlantic security arrangements from Eastern Europe.

“We have not only informed them and given them a preview of what will be in this report, but we have actually explicitly solicited their feedback and incorporated that feedback into our report,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Tuesday at the State Department. “So there will be no surprises.”