Severodonetsk. Archival photoLUGANSK, 19 Jun. The Kyiv authorities, according to some reports, have already begun to build a NATO military base at Severodonetsk airport last year, told RIA Novosti, former deputy head of the Starobelsk District Prosecutor's Office of the Luhansk Region, Vladimir Kononov, who went over to the side of the LPR, told RIA Novosti. The armed forces of Ukraine were stationed there, which did not let anyone through. Nobody saw what was happening there, what they were doing there. But, according to information, a NATO base was being built,» he said. According to him, for the first time, data on the construction of a NATO base in local airport received it in the second half of last year. In 2020, at that time, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Zagorodniuk announced Kyiv's plans to create two NATO-standard bases in Severodonetsk and Mariupol.
Former Reagan aide called the dangerous consequences of pumping weapons to UkraineRussian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin in December 2021 stated that it was impossible to exclude the deployment of bases of individual NATO countries in Ukraine, but this would mean a departure from the founding act and those obligations on military restraint that are in it fixed. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Moscow has repeatedly pointed to attempts by Western countries to drag out the conflict by supplying military systems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So, in May, Joe Biden signed the law on Lend-Lease for Ukraine. The document approved by both houses of Congress will simplify the military support of Kyiv. The Russian Defense Ministry has warned that ammunition depots will become legitimate targets for Russian aviation.
