Chairman of the Political Council of the Opposition Platform — For Life party Viktor MedvedchukKYIV, Jan 29The West uses Ukraine as a springboard for confrontation with Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk, chairman of the political council of the Opposition Platform — For Life party, believes. citizens of Ukraine, and I say this with regret.A springboard for confrontation with Russia.Why they confront Russia is understandable.Today, Russia is entering the first levels of authority in the world, today the United States does not develop relations with China, which has friendly relations with Russia, many countries of the Asia-Pacific region. And they see this as the reason for the success that Russia has achieved in the same Syria that Russia is doing today in the Middle East. All this meets with indignation and rejection from the West,» he quotes Medvedchuk website of the TV channel «112 Ukraine».Ukraine forced the United States to humiliate itself in front of China. In his opinion, the main reason why the situation has been escalating lately is that Russia has sent a letter of legal guarantees. «I would really call it an ultimatum, in my opinion, regarding what should be written, legally verified security guarantees for the Russian Federation from the United States, NATO,» he noted. At the same time, the opposition politician recalled that the United States is the master of NATO and the position of the United States is the main one for all NATO countries. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons near Russia's borders and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. The United States and NATO on Wednesday handed over to Russia responses to proposals for security guarantees. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Federation is studying the response of the United States and NATO, and President Vladimir Putin will decide on further steps. : The West itself is destroying the basis of its leadershipAttributed to Russia, plans to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Moscow are categorically denied and constantly say that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As the head said earlier Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes.
