Putin complained about NATO in Kazan. It’s unfair, he says

Vladimir Putin Thursday after the BRICS summit, he accused the West of unfairly expanding the Atlantic Alliance, TASS writes. “There is no justice here and we want to change this situation and we will achieve it,” TASS quoted the Kremlin leader as saying.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization expanded significantly at the beginning of the millennium, when several Central and Eastern European countries, including the Czech Republic, joined it. Finland and Sweden joined NATO in February 2022 as a result of Russia’s military invasion into Ukraine‘s territory, launched by Moscow. Ukraine itself is also seeking admission to the alliance, which is defending itself against Russian aggression for the third year with Western support. The head of NATO, Mark Rutte, said last week at a meeting of defense ministers of countries that are members of the bloc that it is clear that Ukraine will be a member of the alliance, that it is only a question of when it will happen.

On Thursday, Putin also did not reject the claim that North Korea sent its troops to Russia, Reuters wrote. The head of the Kremlin said at a press conference after the summit of the BRICS group of developing countries that it is up to Moscow to fulfill the defense pact it decided with Pyongyang this year.

The United States has said it has evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 soldiers to Russia for use in the fight in Ukraine. Reuters says that it would be a major escalation of the conflict that Russia started in February last year.