MOSCOW, February 16 Russia is forced to take a whole range of measures, including military ones, in a situation where Ukraine is being pumped with offensive weapons, and hotbeds of tension are being created near the Russian borders, said Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matvienko. “It is clear that in this situation the Russian state is forced to take measures to strengthen the security of the country and its inhabitants. political, diplomatic, military, informational. What is being done,» she told Parliamentary Newspaper. The speaker stressed that NATO has already begun military development of the territory of Ukraine, the pumping of its armed forces with military equipment, ammunition, weapons, including offensive. The calculation of the mentioned forces is to create centers of instability around the Russian borders, Matvienko is convinced. At the same time, she noted, certain forces in the United States, in the West as a whole, seek to draw Ukraine into a war with Russia. «I would even say that Kiev is being forced into it, aggravating the international situation,» the speaker of the Federation Council said. SUVs and drugs
