Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ANKARA, Mar 25 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he believes French colleague Emmanuel Macron's statement about NATO's «brain-death state» is unsuccessful. Earlier, Macron noted that the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine produced an electric shock effect for NATO, returning the alliance from a state of «brain death» to strategic certainty.
Macron called Russia an «electric shock» for NATO»NATO did not have a brain dead. There was no such thing. It was a very unfortunate statement. After this unsuccessful statement, Macron is currently is one of the leaders playing the most active role in NATO. Pretty diligent. I see that Macron is very active in meetings with Ukraine, Russia and other countries,» the Turkish leader told reporters on the plane after returning from Brussels. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. NATO flank
