Leonid Slutsky, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, appreciated the statement of the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, that the West made a mistake by promising Ukraine and Georgia membership in NATO.
Earlier, Borrell said that Western countries made a number of mistakes in relations with the Russian Federation, including a promise to Kiev to join the North Atlantic Alliance. In addition, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo urged to comply with all stages of the administrative process of the country’s admission to the EU and not to rush into admitting Ukraine to the organization.
“Recognition of one’s own wrong is a movement towards the constructive. It was frenzied Russophobia that led to a crisis that will not be so easy to pass, including for European states. We have repeatedly warned about the danger of pandering to Nazism and indulging the genocide in the Donbass for the Kiev regime, in response, they literally laughed in our faces… What was left? Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is a forced step, but it is also the result of a misguided policy of the West, when we were simply left with no other choice. I hope that the EU functionaries will find the courage to recognize this fact as well,” Slutsky wrote in his Telegram channel.
The politician also recalled that at the beginning of this week, French President Emmanuel Macron said that “one must always respect Russia and the Russian people and continue the dialogue.” It is a pity that the realization of this comes to European politicians after the boiling point has been passed, and by no means through Russia’s fault, because Moscow has been calling for dialogue for years, Slutsky summed up.