MEP Bardell considers Russia's demand for NATO not to expand eastward to be fair

"Russia's demand ... that NATO should not descend on its borders is legitimate," the parliamentarian said.

Bardell explained that in 1991, an agreement was concluded between the United States and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on the non-expansion of NATO eastward to the borders of Russia.

“You can’t fight either with Russia or with the United States, but you need to look for a balanced approach,” he said.

Earlier, the German publication Der Spiegel reported that a 1991 document was found in the National Archives of Great Britain, in which Western countries declared the unacceptability of NATO expansion to the east.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that the alliance has not violated its promise not to expand to the east.