The desire to make Ukraine a member of NATO provokes serious military risks, “up to a large-scale conflict in Europe.” Moscow believes that it is necessary to reduce the degree of confrontation.
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“The course of drawing Kiev into NATO with the prospect of the appearance of attack missile systems near our borders creates unacceptable threats to Russia’s security,” he said.
At the same time, Lavrov noted that Moscow considers it necessary to reduce the degree of confrontation, which is caused by the alleged “tutelage” of the Americans over the Ukrainians.
According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the main topic of conversation between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden on December 7, was the Ukrainian crisis and the lack of progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to him, the conversation “made it possible to conduct a kind of inventory of the implementation of the agreements reached during the Geneva summit.”
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