The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: NATO Exercises and Kiev threaten to derail the peace process in Ukraine
Desires NATO and Kiev to hold military exercises threaten to disrupt the trend of progress in the peace settlement, said on Thursday the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. " in this context is surprising announced plans to perform together with Kiev large-scale exercises of the countries-members of NATO on the square of Ukraine before the end of this year. Such actions and in truth fraught with tension and capable of posing a danger of disruption signs of progress in the peace process in Ukraine ", - said Lukashevich said at a press conference on Thursday, RIA " Novosti ". According to Lukashevich, the Russian Federation is trying to lay the responsibility for the events in Ukraine, this proves the necessity of strengthening NATO activity close to the Russian border." in addition, it is clear that NATO through Such statements and decisions takes the line to promote infrastructure of NATO to the East and the increasing military presence of the block close to the Russian border, to which we will respond, " said He. Also the Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry said that " irresponsible statements of the West and the destabilization of the situation on the European continent do not contribute to the task of combating the threat of terrorism ". He focused on the recent phrase of the NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, who said that the Russian Federation is the state that is actively trying to undermine the territorial integrity of Ukraine ". Remember, in Wales ended the NATO summit. Commonwealth Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has touched a lot of topics on it, but the Russian Federation and Ukraine passed through his performances with red thread. For example, NATO leaders agreed on the creation of rapid reaction forces to counter the " Russian threat ". The permanent representative of Russia to NATO Alexander Grushko said that the Russian Federation will review all plans, announced at the NATO conference, and Also about the fact that " the story is about a significant change in the military situation in the region ". He also said that throughout the fall in Ukraine, NATO's role was " extremely destructive ".