#Vershinin: CSTO repeatedly addressed #NATO offering cooperation. A relevant proposal for cooperation on Afghanistan🇦🇫 was put on the table back in the day.2⃣years ago #CSTO foreign ministers suggested building mutual confidence & cooperation. The proposals were left unanswered. https://t.co/CCSepsK7Tx

#Nebenzia: For us, Ukraine’s accession to NATO is a “red line”, first of all due to military and strategic considerations. Placement of NATO infrastructure on #Ukrainian soil would make us retaliate which would inevitably put #Russia and #NATO on the verge of #conflict. https://t.co/Rso3fM9pXX

#Nebenzia: We are neighboring #NATO countries and that was the result of cheating by our Western partners who, when the Berlin Wall collapsed, told us that they wouldn't move beyond the borders of the former GDR. And our naive leadership at that time opted to believe them. https://t.co/36stsyxDMG