Leonid Slutsky: “Ukraine is on the arena again. While the world is waiting for the reaction of the United States and NATO to Russia’s initiatives on global security, President Zelenskiy is trying to drag the news agenda over to himself. Starting with Moscow’s accusations of intimidating Kiev in connection with “speculation” about the possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, he once again called for “preventive sanctions against the Russian Federation.”
Russia is not going to intimidate anyone or “play” information attacks. Mr Zelenskiy should carefully study the draft agreements with the United States and NATO agreements on mutual guarantees of security in Europe, proposed by the Russian Foreign Ministry, and not continue to dream of NATO membership. They are freely available.
Calm on the European continent will be facilitated by the refusal to place intermediate and shorter-range missiles in each other’s range and the refusal to further expand NATO to the east. And such statements are just forcing Russia to talk about “red lines”, and not only for the sake of its own security, but also for security along the entire European perimeter. “
