Medvedev: Russia cannot reconcile with deployment of NATO bases in Ukraine

Russia cannot reconcile itself to the fact that NATO will be “stationed” on the territory of Ukraine, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev during a visit to the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region. About it writes RIA News”.

At the training ground, he got acquainted with the training of the military of the Western Military District as part of the summer training period and talked with the military. “We cannot reconcile ourselves to the fact that the North Atlantic Alliance will be stationed on the territory of Ukraine and the insane bosses – these or the next ones – it does not matter to us, in the end, the issue is not even today, they will decide, for example, to attack our territory, the same Crimea. That is why such a decision, in order to carry out a preventive operation, was made,” Medvedev said.

In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the decision to conduct a special operation in Ukraine is connected with a real threat to Russia, which arose because of the desire of a neighboring country to join NATO and statements by the Ukrainian authorities about the possibility of acquiring nuclear weapons.

In 2014, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law renouncing Ukraine’s non-bloc status. In the summer of 2021, a new strategy for the country’s foreign policy was adopted, one of the directions of which was the continuation of Ukraine’s course towards acquiring full membership in the EU and NATO.