Moscow-Sana
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that his country cannot prevent the rapprochement between Ukraine and NATO, but will do everything necessary to mitigate the repercussions of this.
In response to a question in this regard, Peskov told reporters today that we cannot prevent this and this is impossible, but we can minimize the repercussions of such steps on our country, stressing that if the rapprochement between Ukraine and NATO continues, Russia will do everything necessary.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had warned earlier of the consequences of Ukraine's possible accession to NATO, considering that this would be a very dangerous step that Moscow would have to respond to.
Commenting on Russia's decision to suspend the work of its mission to NATO and the work of the NATO mission in Moscow, Peskov said Russia has always called for the development of relations with NATO, despite the aggressiveness of this military-political alliance, but all efforts failed and Moscow abandoned cooperation with it, pointing out that NATO considers Russia an adversary for that. You don't have to worry about giving up on having relationships with him.
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced his country's decision to suspend the work of its mission to NATO as of the first of next month, in a step that comes in response to the expulsion of a number of Russian diplomats accredited to NATO, explaining that the measure includes the work of its senior Russian military official.
