Geopolitics
Kremlin Declares EU Entry for Ukraine Unacceptable, Citing Military Transformation
Alexander Mercouris
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"The European Union, these are Peskov's words, the European Union is itself transforming into a military, political, economic block. This is a completely different reality. The EU is spending enormous sums of money on militarization of national economies. That is the reality currently prevailing in Europe. And of course we take it into account."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the EU is transforming into a military-political-economic bloc, signaling that Russia now views Ukrainian EU membership as unacceptable and incompatible with Ukraine's neutrality. This marks a hardening of Russia's position, as Putin himself had previously not explicitly rejected Ukraine's potential EU membership, though other senior Russian officials including Shoigu, Lavrov and Medvedev have warned about this for six months.
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Alexander Mercouris