Go to the media bankDeputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov. Archival photoMOSCOW, Oct. 14The United States today, as during the Caribbean crisis, does not want to take into account Russia's concerns, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti. «If you try to draw parallels between the Caribbean crisis and the current aggravation in relations between Russia and the United States, then in both cases we have to talk about Washington's desire to acquire decisive military-strategic superiority, which is destructive for international security and strategic stability. The goal is the same — to ensure global dominance for the United States by any means,» Ryabkov told RIA Novosti. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry marked the US «red line» in the context of arms supplies to Ukraine to protect their vital interests,» Ryabkov noted. «This is the root cause of the current crisis around Ukraine. Soot Respectively, the analogy with the Caribbean crisis may be that both in the early 1960s and now, Washington does not consider it important to take into account the legitimate concerns of our country related to direct threats to its security,» the deputy minister said. He recalled that six decades ago, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F. Kennedy «were wise enough to step back from the brink by working out a geopolitical compromise that avoided a nuclear apocalypse»: Washington guaranteed a non-aggression on Cuba and the withdrawal of American Jupiter missiles from Turkey, and Moscow returned those delivered to «Freedom Island» Soviet missiles.
