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Kremlin fears Ukraine joining NATO
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Moscow has once again declared its desire to normalize relations with Kiev, but without questions about Crimea.
Further cooperation between NATO and Ukraine will bring the alliance’s military infrastructure closer to Russian borders. Such a threat on September 5 was named by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Pavel Zarubin in a program on the Russia 1 TV channel.
“First, Zelensky says:“ We want, we aspire to NATO. ”The Americans say:“ Great, there are certain conditions, fulfill them, and we will wait for you with open arms. ”This is a direct threat to Russia. This is a potential future approach of military infrastructure. NATO to our borders, “he said.
Peskov also said that Russia wants to normalize relations with Ukraine.
“Putin is ready to meet, and he believes that the sad state in which Russian-Ukrainian relations are now is worthless, and, in theory, this must, of course, be corrected. But for now, the same mutual political will from Kiev we do not see, “the official said.
He noted that Ukraine wants to discuss Crimea, but “clearly not from the point of view that this is a region of the Russian Federation,” therefore, in this form, this issue is excluded for negotiations. The spokesman for the Russian president added that in terms of preparing the summit of Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, “things are still there.”
Earlier, the Kremlin talked about the consequences of Ukraine’s entry into NATO for Russia. Peskov considered such a situation dangerous and said that in this case Moscow would have to take countermeasures and carry out a “rebalancing” in order to ensure its security “one hundred percent.”
In June, the first NATO summit with President Joe Biden concluded with a final communiqué stating that Ukraine will become a NATO member.
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid recently stated that Ukraine can be admitted to NATO only after de-occupation.
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