In the first Russian comment on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s announcement that Kyiv will urgently apply for NATO membership, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, considered that Ukraine’s quest to urgently join NATO is a Ukrainian request to “accelerate the start of a war.” third world.”
“Zelensky wants to speed up joining NATO, great idea, he’s simply begging NATO to speed up the start of a third world war,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel.
Stoltenberg: “NATO” is not a party to the Ukraine crisis
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had claimed that the alliance is not a party to the Ukrainian crisis, and that this alliance remains a defensive alliance, according to his claim.
“The gates of NATO are still open, we have shown that in recent years,” Stoltenberg said.
“The membership decision is taken unanimously by all 30 allies, our goal now is to provide urgent supplies to Ukraine to help it defend itself. Now this is the main task of the alliance,” he noted.
In turn, US President Joe Biden expressed his country’s readiness to defend all its NATO allies, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats “will not terrorize Americans.”
Biden said that what Nord Stream lines had been exposed to in the Baltic Sea was a “deliberate act of sabotage”, and that “his country sent equipment to assist the investigation.”
Biden told the Russian president, “Do not misunderstand my words, the United States is ready to defend every inch of the territory of its allies, and I stress that.”
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