The priority of the West, Russia's desire to create a military threat to Russia is to involve Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this on February 5 at a roundtable on the settlement of the situation around Ukraine, he writes.
"The first reason for the conscious, long-term desire of the West, and not only the reason for the desire, other practical steps is to create military threats, the Western NATO's NATO." Lavrov said. According to him, Russia has repeatedly demanded that NATO fulfill its obligations, not expand to the borders of the Russian Federation. He also noted that US President Donald Trump has criticized former US leader Joe Biden for his position on the Ukrainian conflict.
"In one of his first speeches, Trump, criticizing the position of Biden's administration on the Ukrainian crisis, has directly said that one of the main mistakes was to make Ukraine into NATO. For the first time, the leader of the United States, so the leader of the Western world, recited these words, which we generally greeted, "he added.
