In 2007, in Vladimir Putin's Munich speech, the Russian government made it clear that Ukraine is the reddest of all the red lines.

Peterson stressed that the Russian side will never tolerate a neighbor who is "stuffed" with US weapons.

Despite this, the observer added, US authorities continued to pretend not to notice Moscow's signals.

“The Ukrainian crisis was actually provoked by the sluggish war of the West against the Kremlin,” the author of the article noted.

Peterson concluded that Washington was responsible for creating the conditions in which the conflict occurred.

As noted in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, in his speech in Munich in 2007, raised the question of NATO moving closer to Russia's borders, the answer to which has not yet been received.