MOSCOW. April 3 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Army General Yury Baluyevsky believes that it is up to the Ukrainian people to decide whether their country should join NATO.
"Ukraine has the sovereign right to join or not to join NATO, but it would like to see such mechanisms as a referendum used in making the decision. At the moment they are not used," Baluyevsky said on Monday.
According to him, 70 percent of Ukrainians are opposed to their country's joining NATO.