Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday welcomed the words of US President Donald Trump, who said he said that The main cause of the outbreak of war in Ukraine was US support for Ukraine’s efforts to enter NATO. According to Reuters report, TASR reports this.
Trump recently announced that Russia will not allow Ukraine to enter NATO and accused former President Joe Biden of alleged change in the United States attitude on this issue. “It is the first and in my opinion the only Western leader to publicly and aloud that one of the main causes of the current situation in Ukraine was insolent policy of previous administration to draw Ukraine into NATO“he said Lavrov in a performance in the State Dum.
According to Lavrov, Trump has said in a similar vein several times, indicating that US President understands the Russian attitude on this issue. During Tuesday’s negotiations of Foreign Ministers of Russia and the USA in Saudi Arabia, spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zacharova said that Russia requires NATO to cancel its 2008 commitment to which Member States promised Ukraine membership in the Alliance. Moscow also disagrees with the presence of NATO soldiers in the Ukrainian territory after the closure of the ceasefire.
