NATO drills being held in Estonia encourage Kyiv's forceful actions - Grushko
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS. May 7 (Interfax) - NATO drills being held in Estonia encourage Kyiv to commit forceful actions, Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko said.
"NATO drills being held in Estonia, the largest ones since 1991, are accompanied by bellicose rhetoric and only encourage Kyiv to continue the punitive operation against its own people," Grushko told Interfax on Wednesday.
"NATO prefers to not recall the February appeals to the Ukrainian armed forces to maintain their neutral status and not to interfere in the domestic conflict," he said.
Kyiv is being provided with enhanced support in the framework of the cooperation program of NATO-Ukraine committee. Grushko said.
"NATO should realize that they are responsible for the criminal actions of its 'partner for peace'," he said.
