In response to NATO threats over Ukraine, Russia may close military transit to Afghanistan
Moscow - Kyiv, April 22 (Navigator - Mikhail Stamm) - Washington and Brussels have long been waiting for a reason to advance the army infrastructure to the East. And the new Kyiv authorities gave them such a reason, said Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. In response, Russia may block the military transit of NATO cargo to Afghanistan.
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Now in Brussels they are discussing only one question: what to “do” with Russia and how to “punish” it, says Antonov. “The Ukrainian events have confirmed that NATO members need us only when we pursue a policy that is convenient for them. Brussels has pursued a policy of containing Russia before, but they tried to do it under the guise of a good uncle.” Now, he says, the masks have been torn off. “The alliance countries have again begun to discuss intensifying work on the joint management of nuclear forces,” the general continues. “This is, for example, when pilots of non-nuclear states, say, from the Netherlands or Germany, are taught to fly airplanes that will carry nuclear weapons on board in wartime.”
Antonov gently hinted that there would be no Americans at the annual conference on international security, due to be held in Moscow at the end of May. However, this will not prevent Russia from raising a sensitive issue for the United States about the conditions for continuing the transit of military cargo along Russian railways to the borders of Afghanistan.
Let us recall that over the past few years the lion's share of US and NATO military cargo has been delivered to Afghanistan via Russian railways.
In response to NATO threats over Ukraine, Russia may close military transit to Afghanistan.