MP Kiva: Putin issued an ultimatum to the United States, making it clear about the reaction to provocations in Ukraine
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Ilya Kiva, a Rada deputy from the Opposition Platform – For Life party, spoke about the US President Vladimir Putin's ultimatum. He wrote about this in his Telegram.
He pointed out that the Russian leader made it clear to Washington about intolerance of the West's provocations in Ukraine and his intention to suppress them. “The ultimatum has been set, we are waiting for a response from the West,” he said. Kiva expressed confidence that the United States would soon begin to scale back its presence in Ukraine, by analogy with Afghanistan.
On December 10, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba On December 10, in his article, he wrote about another “harsh ultimatum” by Putin. In his opinion, it consisted in demanding guarantees from NATO, excluding the expansion of the alliance to the east. After that, the diplomat argued, Kiev and Western countries began to develop a comprehensive plan to “contain” Moscow.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced draft agreements with NATO and the United States on security guarantees. The documents contain calls not to view Moscow as an enemy, not to create a threat of military escalation and to abandon NATO's eastward expansion.
