Russia said on Wednesday NATO was turning Ukraine into a “frontline of confrontation” and threatened to sever remaining ties with the Atlantic military alliance if Ukraine’s hopes of joining it were realized.
The Kyiv parliament’s renunciation of Ukraine’s neutral status on Tuesday in pursuit of NATO membership has outraged Moscow and deepened the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.
“NATO countries pushed Kyiv to this counterproductive decision, trying to turn Ukraine into a front line of confrontation with Russia,” Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told the Russian news agency Interfax.
“If this decision in the …read more
Source: Voice of America
