The concerns of Eastern European countries about their security and Russia’s alleged destabilization of the situation in Ukraine are baseless, as such an attitude has more to do with phobias then with real security concerns, Russia’s Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko said in an interview with Euronews.
“These worries are completely baseless. We have proven many times that all these so called facts produced by NATO and other European capitals are not really facts, but fabricated documents. We are not concentrating troops, neither movement of military hardware which could be considered as destabilizing,” Grushko said.
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According to Grushko, these concerns can be attributed to phobias. “And phobias can not be treated with deploying tanks and additional combat forces, “ he noted, advising the countries to take a closer look at such problems prevalent in their own societies,
On Thursday and Friday, a NATO summit will take place in Newport, Wales, gathering 60 world leaders, 70 foreign ministers and 70 defense ministers among thousands of delegates. The summit’s agenda will include a discussion of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, NATO’s relations with Russia, the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, enhancing the collective defense of the alliance and the activities of Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria.
Even though the majority of topics directly concern Moscow, Russia was not invited to participate in the summit, as, according to some sources, its presence was deemed “unreasonable.”
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