June 26 () –
The Kremlin has played down the appointment of Dutch acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte as NATO’s new secretary general, saying the “hostile alliance” will continue with its current policies, which Moscow says are aimed at limiting Russia’s room for action.
“It is unlikely that this election is going to change anything,” the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dimitri Peskov, assessed this Wednesday, placing the United States as NATO’s main ideologue. “They work with the objective of strategically defeating the Russian Federation,” he added in statements to the media, according to official agencies.
Rutte will take up his duties on October 1, in a context largely marked by the growing Russian threat in Eastern Europe, especially in the wake of the military offensive launched on Ukraine in February 2022. kyiv also aspires to join the Alliance, something that for Moscow represents a direct threat to its own national security.
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