Rocket launchers in Romania and Poland are a threat to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. The statement was made at a press conference after a meeting in Moscow with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
UPDATE: “It is known that we have received promises that NATO will not extend any steps to the East. This is well known. Now we see where NATO is – Poland, Romania, the Baltic states. They said one thing and they did another, in our country the people are used to saying about these things that they simply deceived us “, said Vladimir Putin.
The President of the Russian Federation made this statement despite the fact that no NATO document mentions that the North Atlantic Alliance will not extend to the East.
Putin also accused the United States of terminating the agreement on the location of the missile defense system, “although we have long asked it not to do so, because this agreement is extremely important for security.”
“Despite this, the US has left this agreement, and now, in Romania and Poland will soon be, if not already installed, missile launch systems, MK41 and Tomahawk missiles can be installed, which is not a system anti-missile, they are offensive, attacking systems “, continued Vladimir Putin.
He added that Ukraine will join NATO.
“Now pay attention to me, please listen carefully to what I tell you. Ukraine in its doctrinal documents also includes the fact that they want to recover the Crimean peninsula by military means. So, not what I’m talking about, but what they wrote in the documents. Now let’s imagine if Ukraine will have been a NATO state, there will be a lot of weapons, weapons of attack, systems of attack, as in Romania, because no one will hinder them in this regard. And then something will start on the Crimean peninsula, and since I’m not even talking about the Donbass, this is a Russian sovereign territory, for us this subject is closed. And then let’s imagine how Ukraine is a member state and will start these actions, and then we will fight NATO? Will we go to war with NATO? Has anyone thought about this? Apparently not! ”Said Vladimir Putin.
The President of the Russian Federation referred to Donbass and Crimea as Russian territories, although the annexation was condemned by the entire international community.
“And now it’s about fulfilling the Minsk agreements. On the one hand, we hear that Ukraine wants to fulfill them. He always accuses us of not fulfilling them. They also openly state that if Ukraine fulfills these Minsk agreements, then the state will disband. But no one thought that if he made such threats to Russia, then he would create the same threats for himself. So these are the questions that need to be looked at very, very carefully, they need to be taken into account. Each state has the right to ensure its own security, to determine with what tools it wants to ensure its own security. I think a lot of people don’t think about Ukraine’s security, or maybe they think, but this is a secondary one, but first and foremost everything that goes on is against Russia, and Ukraine is just a tool. This problem can be solved in different ways, let’s say we are drawn into an armed conflict, and then they make it possible for their allies in Europe to introduce those very radical sanctions that the US is talking about. Or the taking of Ukraine into NATO, the deployment, the installation of offensive weapons and their incitement to generate armed conflict in the Donbass or on the territory of Crimea, “Putin said.
The initial news: During the meeting, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, stressed that no European leader wants a war, and that his visit to Moscow also has a “peace mission”.
For his part, Vladimir Putin stressed that Prime Minister Viktor Orban had “done much in the interests of Hungary and the Russian Federation”, which was seen as a gesture of direct support from the Russian president.
At the same time, Vladimir Putin assured that Moscow will work “with anyone who will be elected prime minister” of Hungary following the April election.
Putin received Orban warmly.
“Direct dialogue, even with this physical distance between us due to the pandemic, is better than any telephone conversation,” Putin said, exclaiming, “I’m glad to see you!”, According to RIA Novosti.
The Russian president and the Hungarian prime minister also addressed issues related to fighting the pandemic. In this regard, Putin said that the issue of technology transfer for the production of the Russian vaccine against COVID-19 in Hungary is being solved, according to the quoted news agency.
Sursa foto: Twitter / Russian Embassy in the USA
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