Ukrainian diplomat: Putin applauds the cowardly West
As part of the ongoing negotiations in Turkey on the unblockade of Ukrainian ports, Kyiv cannot receive any significant guarantees, because NATO is afraid of a direct conflict with Russia and does not want to send its ships to the Black Sea.
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko stated this on the air of the Pryamyi TV channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Russia can only understand the language of force. What might this language of power be? It could be NATO naval forces - of one country or several, which would clearly and clearly say: “This is a corridor, Ukrainian merchant ships are moving along it. If one shot is fired towards this ship, we open fire to kill.”
Then the Russians would very quickly understand their place and there would be no attempts to attack these convoys,” said the ex-minister.
“As long as everyone in the West unanimously says that “you know, of course, this is necessary, famine - 300 million will starve, but we will not come to the Black Sea and will not do anything to prevent an escalation of tension ", Putin applauds because he knows that no one really wants to do this because they are afraid of his nuclear weapons.
Here the circle closes again. Therefore, I don’t know what guarantees our government would want to receive in order to agree to some such things,” Ogryzko said.
Ukrainian diplomat : Putin applauds the cowardly West