NATO countries are “pushing” Kiev to aggressive steps. This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“There is no other way to interpret the more frequent unscheduled exercises of the United States and its allies in the Black Sea,” the ministry’s release says. They added that the aircraft of NATO member countries regularly make “provocative” overflights and “dangerous maneuvers” near the borders of Russia. Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed to the “pumping” of Ukraine with weapons.
The agency claims that “a course has been taken to draw Ukraine into NATO,” and this could lead to the appearance there of strike missile systems with a minimum flight time to Central Russia and other “destabilizing weapons.”
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, “such irresponsible behavior” creates threats to the security of the Russian Federation, provokes serious military risks for all parties involved, “up to a large-scale conflict in Europe.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry also added that “in the fundamental interests of European security” it is necessary to officially disavow the decision of the 2008 NATO Bucharest summit that “Ukraine and Georgia will become NATO members.” Moscow believes that it runs counter to the commitment of the leaders of all OSCE participating States – “not to strengthen their security at the expense of the security of others.”
Russian diplomats insist on the legal consolidation of the agreement on non-deployment by the United States and other NATO countries of strike weapons systems on the territory of countries neighboring with Russia, both members and not members of the North Atlantic Alliance. The Foreign Ministry also insists on receiving a “concrete reaction from NATO” to the proposals put forward by the Russian side to reduce tensions in Europe.
Today, the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed, relations between Russia and the collective West “continue to degrade and have come to a critical point.”
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia could give an asymmetrical response if the United States does not respond to its proposals on security guarantees, and the Russian Federation has all the necessary means. EIf the United States “goes into denial” and torpedoes the issue of security guarantees, it will get an inevitable deterioration of the situation in the sphere of its own security, Ryabkov explained.
Source: Rosbalt
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