Russia has reacted with disgust to a summit that is being held too close to its borders and in which the entry of another neighbor has been confirmed: Sweden. But above all because the allies are going to provide more and better weapons to Ukraine. The messages return that all these decisions can trigger another world war.
Once again, it was former president Dimitri Medvedev, current number two of the National Security Council of Russia, the one that has struck the most strident note. He criticized a “Fully Loco West”, which brings “the situation to a dead end”. He assured that ‘World War III is getting closer’
After the 2022 invasion, kyiv has maintained that it needs all the help it can get from the West to roll back what it presents as a war of conquest of Russia. On the table is finally an international framework that would pave the way for long-term security guarantees for Ukraine to increase its defenses against Russia and deter Moscow from further aggression.
But the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskovbelieves that security guarantees for Ukraine would be a mistake, because they would be ignoring the international principle on the indivisibility of security: “By providing guarantees to Ukraine, they would be affecting the security of the Russian Federation.”
After learning about kyiv’s progress in Vilnius, the spokesman for Putin said that “it is impossible for Moscow to tolerate anything that threatens its own security”, so these concessions “will make Europe much more dangerous for many years“.