The conflict in the South-East of Ukraine needs NATO to justify its presence in the European Union, said on Thursday on air of TV channel " Deputy defense Minister Anatoly Antonov.
"We recognize that today NATO is seeking to justify the purpose of its existence in the European Union. If not Ukraine, then, by golly there would be another reason to try to restrain the Russian Federation, to find a new enemy and thereby prove to the world that the (presence) of NATO in the European Union is necessary, " he said.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone, as well as the exchange of prisoners.
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