Kremlin Warns Over NATO Infrastructure In Ukraine

The Kremlin has reiterated that any expansion of NATO military infrastructure in Ukraine would cross one of President Vladimir Putin’s “red lines” as Belarus’s authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka accused Washington of using training centers as a guise for setting up bases for the Western military alliance.

Ukraine, which is not a NATO member but has long sought closer ties with the West and its militaries, immediately rejected the statements saying it would determine its own security policy and that Moscow should worry only about issues inside of Russia’s borders.

The latest flare-up in frayed relations among the nations started on September 27 when Lukashenka said the United States is “building up bases” in Ukraine and that he and Putin have “agreed we must do something about it.”