Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov, in comments posted last night on the embassy’s website, noted that the communiqué issued by the NATO summit yesterday confirms the anti-Russia drive of NATO. Antonov indicated that in doing so, the alliance is burying its own responsibility for the conflict involving Ukraine.
“We are stunned by the outright falsification of the truth, which is used by the Summit participants to justify their aggressive policy against Russia,” Antonov said. “Our enemies without any evidence are trying to lay on us the responsibility for the crisis of the European security architecture. Once again they pretend that they know nothing about the promise, given to Mikhail Gorbachev by ex-Secretary of State James Baker about non-expansion of NATO to the East. After the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Washington and its European satellites deliberately brought the military infrastructure closer to our borders, creating unacceptable threats to the security of the Russian Federation.”
“Moreover, the North Atlantic bloc is still talking about an ‘unprovoked Russian invasion,’ while Jens Stoltenberg admitted that the Alliance had been preparing Ukraine for a conflict since 2014,” he continued. “NATO members have the impudence to talk about the ‘defensive nature’ of the Alliance and that there is no desire for a confrontation with us.”
