“Russia pursues a peaceful policy, but it has the right to ensure its security,” Vladimir Putin warned of the Ukrainian response to a “provocative” question from a Russian journalist. of Ukraine? If not why? If yes why? »).
“As I said, in the medium and long term we are discussing security issues with our partners, our interlocutors, including President Baden. “We can not help but worry about the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, because after that it will be followed by the development of bases and military capabilities there,” said the Russian president during a joint press conference with Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
As he underlined, “we rely on the fact that our concerns will be heard, at least this time, although in previous decades we always talked about our concerns, nevertheless NATO infrastructure was approaching our borders and now we see the MK 41 missile systems in Romania and we have serious suspicions to expect that the same will happen in Ukraine … But how can we not think about it? it would be criminal inaction to watch what happens… That would be criminal inaction, and that is the subject of our talks. ”
In this context, the Russian president announced that a committee would be set up to look into the matter in detail and make its proposals. “It was President Biden’s idea, I accepted it, I agreed, and I said we would present our proposals until they are formulated. I understand that there is great interest in Russia in the EU and internationally, but it is too early to make them public,” Putin said. .
For his part, the Prime Minister spoke in favor of maintaining open EU-Russia communication channels with a functioning relationship that benefits all parties. “The resurgence of tensions in Ukraine is a matter of concern. “A conflict will not have a winner, it will only have losers,” he said characteristically.
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