Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced NATO’s plans to create an alliance mission in Ukraine. The Russian Federation Council called this the “creeping penetration” of the alliance into Ukraine, which is taking official forms.

According to experts, the bloc is trying to find a way to give legitimacy to the presence of alliance's military on Ukrainian territory. But this will not protect NATO members from attacks by the Russian Aerospace Forces, they say.. Former deputy head of NATO Alessandro Mino said that sending NATO to Ukraine could lead to the start of a “new world war”