MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - Russia has rejected the claims of a Ukrainian delegate to the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague that Russia is allegedly threatening the security of nuclear sites in Ukraine.
"This is a pure and simple attempt to shift the blame," the Russian delegation said in a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
"The dysfunctional 'new Kyiv authorities' may pose a threat to the security of Ukrainian nuclear sites under the current Ukrainian circumstances but this is definitely not Russia," it stressed.
"In addition, Batkivshchyna and UDAR deputies of the ruling Ukrainian coalition have lately put forward a legislative initiative of the Ukrainian secession from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)," the Russian delegation noted.
"We do not trust attempts of the Ukrainian delegate to dissociate from this position. The NPT is in serious danger," the statement runs.