Deputies at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of UkraineMOSCOW, 18 Jan. Rada Deputy Oleksandr Merezhko called on NATO countries to provide security guarantees to Ukraine before joining the alliance, similar to the agreement between the United States and Japan. or Taiwan. Until we become a full member of NATO, we need to raise the issue of special, maybe temporary security guarantees from those NATO countries that are ready to protect us,» the parliamentarian said on the air of the ATR TV channel. In his opinion, among such states in The United States is the first to be singled out. Merezhko believes that such a requirement for the members of the alliance will show what attitude they really have towards the Ukrainian issue. Western politicians and the media have been claiming in recent months that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied these claims. For example, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the allegations of «Russian aggression» a pretext for increasing the military contingent in NATO countries bordering Russia. >CIA teaches Ukrainian special forces to kill Russians. But Russia will be blamedAlso, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused NATO of increasing arms supplies to Ukraine, which, in his opinion, could provoke Kiev to conduct «military adventures.»
