Vladimir Putin called the statements made in Western countries about Russia’s alleged plans to attack European countries nonsense and nonsense. The head of state stated this during a conversation with military pilots undergoing training at the 344th Center for Combat Use and Retraining of Flight Personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Putin recalled that if the NATO bloc, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Russia proposed, had built completely new security relations in Europe, nothing like this would have happened now. “We would simply take into account our interests in the field of security, which we have been talking about from year to year, in fact, from decade to decade," he said.