VIENNA, 16 Sep. Moscow expects that the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (SMM) will include in the reports data on military exercises that will take place in the near future on the territory of Ukraine, Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday. military exercises involving armed formations and foreign military equipment from NATO countries. In the near future, the Joint Endeavor 2021 (Joint Endeavor, September 22-30) and Rapid Trident 2021 (Rapid Trident, September 20-October 1) maneuvers will take place. ) «, — said the diplomat at the OSCE post-Council.
Zakharova commented on the joint military exercises of Ukraine and NATO He stressed that all this does not correspond to the provisions of the «Package of Measures», which involves the withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine of all foreign armed formations and military equipment under the supervision of the OSCE. «We expect that the SMM, in accordance with its mandate, will include data on these exercises in the reports,» Lukashevich stressed. According to the Russian ambassador, the goals of Ukraine's militarization are absolutely clear — to maintain a hotbed of controlled tension near the Russian borders, to clear the space in the east for its subsequent geopolitical development. . «The Ukrainian people are persistently trying to impose a false choice between Russia and the so-called collective West, offering a flawed zero-sum game. Moreover, progress along the path of Euro-Atlantic integration — about which, by the way, the opinion of the Ukrainian people was not even asked — is closely linked to the level of Russophobia in the country It is not surprising that the trade in Russophobia has become one of the main foreign policy «export» categories of Kiev, «concluded Lukashevich.
Ukrainian pilots have practiced missile launches during exercises on the border with Crimea
