Defense Minister Reznikov: the issue of Ukraine's accession to NATO is not on the agenda assessed the country's chances of joining NATO. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, the decision to admit Kiev to the alliance can only be made with a consensus of the member states. Reznikov noted that this will be a “political decision”, which is currently not on the agenda. At the same time, he stressed that Kiev should not forget about its goal of joining NATO. Thus, the head of the Ministry of Defense added that the task of the Ukrainian authorities is to carry out reforms and “do homework” in order to be de facto ready for admission to the union.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Ukraine should not create tension in the region by conducting joint exercises with the United States and NATO in the Black Sea. According to him, Moscow is observing the active militarization of Ukraine by Western countries, as well as the drift of the military infrastructure of the North Atlantic Alliance closer to the Russian border. “Russia was promised that NATO would not go further east, and then they were deceived, and NATO went further east,” Peskov said.