“I think the president has quite clearly said and defined this situation with the possible deployment of NATO missiles, and above all the missiles of the United States, on the territory of Ukraine.
He determined that this was a security issue for Russia.
Our country will do everything to prevent NATO missiles from being deployed on the territory of Ukraine, ”Tsekov said.
Earlier, in an interview with Pavel Zarubin on the Russia 24 TV channel, Putin said that the flight time of NATO missiles to Moscow in the event of Ukraine joining the alliance would be reduced from 15 to 7-10 minutes.
He also noted that he does not consider talks about Ukraine's joining NATO to be "chatter". According to him, Moscow may not know "how the conversation" between Kiev and the West was actually built.