Ukraine offered to deploy US air defense forces on its territory

MOSCOW, Aug 10. Kiev called on Washington to deploy US air defense forces in Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories Oleksiy Reznikov said this, the ministry's press service reports. «It is important to expand the security package for Ukraine. First of all, by deploying air defense forces, even by deploying American units. Our legislation allows this.» Reznikov said at a meeting with the head of the Jamestown Foundation Glen Howard. He explained his request by the fact that Russia allegedly intends to deploy nuclear forces in Crimea, and also accused Moscow of occupying the Azov Sea and militarizing the Black Sea. “It is with the support of Crimea that Russia is carrying out military operations in the Middle East and Africa, influencing the Balkans. Now the same is happening with Nord Stream 2,” the minister said. In Kiev, they told how Ukraine missed the chance to «blackmail the whole world.» Ukrainian politicians regularly make statements about the need to deploy foreign troops in the country, as well as to obtain the status of a nuclear power. Thus, the head of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia said earlier that Kiev made a fatal mistake by getting rid of nuclear weapons. According to the politician, if Ukraine had retained the status of a nuclear state, then they would have talked to it “in a different way and would have given money for service.” In early August, the former head of the SBU, Colonel-General Igor Smeshko, said that Kiev could begin to move towards restoration its nuclear potential in case of non-fulfillment of the conditions of the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine wants to force Russia to pay «reparations» for Crimea