Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out, during an Aug. 8 interview with Sputnik Radio, that before states can offer security guarantees like those promised to Ukraine by the G7 leaders at the July 11-12 NATO summit in Vilnius summit, they have to be solvent. “Security guarantees presuppose the words ‘guarantees’ and ‘security’ and, overall, a range of certain characteristics as well, but these are missing here. No one here can even say anything about it, so these are empty, absolutely groundless excuses that are becoming more and more numerous,” she said.
Zakharova was responding to a statement issued by EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano, who said yesterday that the EU cannot provide security guarantees because it is not a military organization. Zakharova stated: “They cannot guarantee themselves anything; they cannot guarantee a stable supply of energy resources, which they need like an organism needs blood. They can’t guarantee themselves even that. They can’t even afford an investigation to determine who undermined their energy security.... They themselves have become vassals of a single colonial power.”
Meanwhile, the Kiev regime has begun seeking the “security guarantees” that the G7 promised during the NATO summit in Vilnius, last month. Kiev plans to begin consultations on security guarantees with the signatory nations of the Vilnius declaration within weeks, head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, said on Aug. 8, reported TASS. “We have also agreed with all countries who signed the declaration in Vilnius and joined it to begin similar consultations,” the presidential press service quoted him as saying. “They will begin this month or next month. Moreover, we hope the first agreements will be reached already by the end of this year.”
