Senator of the Russian Federation Alexei Pushkov criticized the words of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who called on the Russian Federation to “withdraw troops from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.”
Pushkov recalled that Abkhazia and South Ossetia are not currently the territory of Georgia, as these regions wanted to secede against the background of the aggression of the Georgian authorities. The NATO Secretary General should remember this, the politician stressed.
“Secondly, Russian peacekeepers are in Transnistria so that the conflict does not resume there. Their presence is warmly supported by half a million residents of Transnistria, of which more than 220,000 are Russian citizens. The Moldovan authorities failed to cope with the problem at the time, disrupted the settlement, did not find a way out and still cannot find it. So, even there, Russia protects the world and its citizens,” the senator noted in his Telegram channel.
Pushkov also stressed that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine at all. The politician urged Stoltenberg to “start with yourself” and call on Washington to withdraw troops from Syria, where they are in defiance of the legitimate authorities of the country, and to urge Turkey to do the same.
“In the meantime, it is difficult to take his statements seriously: the blatant double standard deprives them of any meaning,” Pushkov concluded.