Russia has not posed any threat to the EU
According to Mehr News Agency to According to the Sputnik news agency, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Russian presidential office, said in a speech addressed to the journalists of his country on Thursday: the concentrated presence of NATO ships in the Black Sea region is a threat to Russia.
According to this media, the spokesperson of the Russian presidential office said: Russia will take measures to ensure its security due to the presence of NATO ships in the Black Sea region.
Dmitry Peskov added: Russia has not created any threat against the European Union and is only protecting its interests in Ukraine. … I should also say about von der Leyen’s idea of a defense union in Europe that apparently we are talking about changing priorities and giving the European Union a military flavor. The Kremlin believes that the work within the framework of the defense alliance in the European Union will intersect with the interaction that European countries do in NATO.
This Kremlin official noted: The prospect of the European Union becoming a defense union forces Russia to configure its foreign policy approaches accordingly.
