@hitlistmusic: In a wide-ranging India Today interview on 4 December 2025, Vladimir Putin lays out the core of Moscow’s long-standing dispute with NATO expansion and Ukraine’s security choices. He argues that while every state has the right to determine its own defense strategy, that right is not absolute if it undermines the security of another. For Russia, he insists, Ukraine’s bid to join a military alliance created explicitly around collective defense represents a direct strategic threat — one the West refuses to acknowledge. Putin stresses that Moscow is not introducing new demands or sudden conditions. Instead, he points to assurances made in the early 1990s, when Western officials publicly pledged that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward.” He contrasts those guarantees with the later waves of NATO enlargement and the eventual push to integrate Ukraine into the alliance, calling this a fundamental breach of trust that reshaped Europe’s security landscape.

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Saturday 06 December 2025 12:02:22 GMT