She said that the Ukrainian authorities began to take such demands lightly after Russia's reaction to the filing of an application for the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO.
“Therefore, we do not take any statements of the Russian Federation very seriously,” RIA Novosti quotes her words in an interview with European Pravda.
In April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that in the course of Russian-Ukrainian talks the non-bloc status of Ukraine was discussed.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that Ukraine's non-bloc status could be an acceptable solution to the current situation.