The entry of Sweden and Finland to NATO in the declared configuration poses a lesser threat to the Russian Federation than the accession of Ukraine to the alliance. According to TASS, this was stated by the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with the Catar television channel Al Jazeera.
“If we talk about the entry of Sweden and Finland in NATO, then, in any case, in the configuration that is declared, this poses a lesser threat to our country than the entry of Ukraine there,” the politician said.
According to him, “the reason is completely understandable.” “The point is not only the weapon that will be placed there, and Russia will have to give its answer, this applies to the Baltic Sea, and the border situation, and so on, and so on. But this is the matter of the future,” the deputy head remarked Owls. “The fact is that we have no territorial issues with these countries, and in the case of Ukraine the situation is different,” Medvedev explained.
Russia proceeds from the fact that Crimea is its integral part, it became part of the country on the basis of a referendum, Medvedev pointed out. He recalled that Ukraine does not recognize this, like a number of other countries of the world. “And if Ukraine enters the block, which is aggressively opposed to us, who also has nuclear potential, then this, of course, can provoke the most notorious, as we are reproached, representatives of the Ukrainian establishment, elite and simply nationalists for that to carry out any sortie in relation to Crimea. And this will entail a direct conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation, ”concluded the deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Russian Federation, noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin.