MOSCOW, Nov 13 Proposal of the former Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's NATO, accepting Ukraine into NATO without lost territories will allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to test the strength of the alliance, such concerns were expressed by Peter Sturm, a columnist for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
«Such a step would be tantamount to NATO's direct entry into the war, since the alliance «Assures that he will defend every inch of his territory. (Russian President Vladimir. — Ed.) Putin will only need to advance his troops a few meters on a remote section of the front, in order to test the strength of NATO without much risk,» the journalist wrote .
Sturm added that, in addition to the danger of a direct conflict with Moscow, such a step would mean the actual recognition of Russia's new territories.
Following the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11-12 Ukraine did not receive an invitation to the military bloc. Moreover, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that this issue will lose relevance if the Kiev regime fails to win the confrontation with Russia.
The G7 countries published a declaration in support of Ukraine, but the security commitments mentioned in it do not provide for specific implementation deadlines . As the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized, NATO has finally returned to the Cold War schemes, and Kyiv is destined to play the role of the main consumable in the hybrid war unleashed by the alliance.