The United States can supply Kiev with strike weapons on a bilateral basis, he said
Slides. January 27. INTERFAX - Moscow understands perfectly well that NATO's guaranteed refusal to move further to the borders of the Russian Federation will not ensure Russia's security, since Ukraine, for example, can receive shock weapons on a bilateral basis from the United States, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
In an interview with a number of Russian media, including Interfax, he stressed that security guarantees for Russia should be more comprehensive than guarantees from further expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance.
"It's not even about, for example, guaranteeing against non-promotion of NATO, although this is very important. And the point is that security guarantees are given, in my opinion, of a different order," Medvedev stressed.
He explained: "It is possible not to invite Ukraine to NATO at all. Moreover, they periodically whisper in our ear that Ukraine will not join NATO in the coming years at all."
According to the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, this is not the question: "It is possible, on the basis of bilateral agreements, to put the same types of shock weapons, the same missiles, on the territory of Ukraine or any other country and say: "No, no, we are not NATO, this is, for example, an agreement between the United States and Ukraine, Great Britain and Ukraine, so it has nothing to do with NATO."
