Pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk says Zelensky regime will collapse without NATO backing

United News of India

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Kyiv, June 27 (UNI) Ukrainian opposition politician and chairman of the Other Ukraine movement Viktor Medvedchuk chiding President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that his power will not dissipate without NATO support, the very powers for whose interests he is fighting.
"Ukraine was made an anti-Russia with Western money, and now it is not fighting for its own interests, which Zelenskyy is incredibly proud of. The uncompromising stance of the drug lord in negotiations is based on the fact that he promotes not the interests of Ukraine, but the interests of NATO, and receives the support of the alliance.
'It is this support that keeps Zelenskyy in power, otherwise he will not be able to hang on," Medvedchuk said in an opinion article published by the smotrim.ru news website, reports TASS.
"The 2022 Istanbul agreements were disrupted because the collective West promised Kiev unconditional support, offering assistance on a 'whatever it takes' basis," Medvedchuk wrote.
He further asserted that NATO countries have become active participants in the conflict, not merely providing support in words but engaging directly in military actions and acting as instigators.
Medvedchuk further accused Zelensky of becoming NATO's champion at the cost of ruining the country, leaving hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian dead, hundreds of thousands more crippled, and millions being forced to leave their homeland and becoming refugees, reports Sputnik.
On March 19, the European Commission presented its new defence strategy ReArm Europe, which directs over €800 billion ($937 billion) to strengthen the defence of the EU countries and keep supplying Ukraine with arms and munitions. The move has further been exacerbated by the US' growing frustration with the war, which has repeatedly threatened to back out of the conflict.
The pro-Kremlin politician further said that the whole war was a means for NATO to justify its continued existence, as it was formed to contain the erstwhile Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991.
As such, he alleged that the bloc needed a new adversary to keep itself going. Its leadership he claimed, perceives European security as dependent on weakening Russia and dismantling it as a state.
Russia has constantly chastised the Western arms supplies to Ukraine, stating that they only hinder the war's resolution, and would involve NATO countries in the crisis, which could potentially trigger a third world war.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that any cargo containing weapons for Ukraine will be a legitimate target for the Russian military.
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