Trump has echoed Moscow’s rhetoric, which has described its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine as a response to planned NATO membership for Kyiv. MOSCOW — Russia’s top diplomat said that Moscow is open for talks with President-elect Donald Trump and praised him for attacking NATO’s plan to embrace Ukraine.
Any prospective peace talks should involve broader arrangements for security in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at his annual news conference Tuesday. Lavrov specifically praised Trump’s comments earlier this month in which he said that NATO’s plans to open its doors to Ukraine had led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Trump said Russia had it “written in stone” that Ukraine’s membership in NATO should never be allowed, but the Biden administration had sought to expand the military alliance to Russia’s doorstep. Trump noted: “I could understand their feelings about that.”.
Trump’s comments echoed Moscow’s rhetoric which has described its “special military operation” in Ukraine launched in February 2022 as a response to planned NATO membership for Kyiv. Ukraine and its allies have denounced Russia’s action as an unprovoked act of aggression.
“NATO did exactly what it had promised not to do, and Trump said that,” Lavrov emphasized. “It marked the first such candid acknowledgment not only from the U.S. but any Western leader that NATO had lied when they signed numerous documents.,” he said.
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