(Moscow = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yoo Cheol-jong = Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the 1st (local time) that Russia will have no choice but to go to war with NATO if Ukraine joins NATO and tries to retake Crimea by force. ) pointed out.
“No one in the West thinks that if Ukraine joins NATO and attacks Crimea, Russia will have no choice but to fight NATO,” Putin said at a press conference following meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban Viktor, who was visiting Moscow on the same day. “He said.
It was pointed out that Ukraine’s accession to NATO might be a threat to Ukraine and NATO’s security.
“Even the United States may be thinking regarding Ukraine’s security, but it seems to be secondary and not so concerned,” he said.
Putin said the United States and its allies ignored Russia’s core security demands that NATO should not extend to Ukraine, but said Russia remains open to dialogue with the West to de-escalate tensions over Ukraine.
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