MOSCOW, May 5th. The expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance to the east did not secure Europe at all, China's envoy Zhang Jun said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. .According to him, the bloc itself is the instigator of conflicts against sovereign states. «Contrary to the declared defense essence, NATO purposefully unleashes wars against sovereign states, causing colossal losses among the population and humanitarian disasters,» the diplomat noted.
In China, they named a new region that NATO plans to destabilize. Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian published a post on Twitter with a map of NATO expansion to the East, hinting at the alliance's tendency to break promises. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security guarantees . Moscow, in particular, demanded from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing to further expand the alliance to the east, to join the Ukrainian bloc, and to establish military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of strike weapons of a military organization near the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
