He noted the lack of reaction from Washington to Putin's public speech in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference.
“It started because the Americans ignored his warning... Shortly thereafter, Georgia and Ukraine were promised membership in the alliance.
In my opinion, they thus added fuel to the fire, once again provoked Russia, ”said Kavan.
The diplomat recalled that American leader Joe Biden promised to accept Ukraine into the alliance back in December last year, but this scenario was rejected by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
“Putin has warned several times ... that if the talk is serious about deploying bases of the North Atlantic Alliance in Ukraine, he will regard this as a threat to Russia as such,” Kavan emphasized.
Earlier, former US President Donald Trump said that under him, the escalation in Ukraine would not have happened thanks to the agreements.
He also expressed the opinion that the actions of the current US administration in the situation around Ukraine could provoke a world war.