MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - The plans of the Group of Seven (G7) countries to offer security guarantees to Ukraine would constitute an infringement of Russia's security and are fraught with extremely negative consequences in the short term, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"Regarding Ukraine's accession to NATO, we treat this subject very negatively. It immediately correlates with the statement that the G7 countries would offer security guarantees" to Ukraine, Peskov told journalists on Wednesday.
"We view this as extremely wrong and potentially very dangerous. Because, by providing whatever security guarantees to Ukraine [that are offered], those countries in fact ignore the international principle of indivisible security. That is, by providing security guarantees to Ukraine, they infringe on Russia's security. This is impossible. And this is fraught with very, very negative implications in the medium term, in the long term, and even in the short term," he said.
Moscow is aware that "there are politicians in those countries who realize this," he said.
"We hope that their voices will be heard somehow, and that wisdom will prevail. Because otherwise, by making such decisions, those countries are making Europe a much more dangerous place for years to come. And of course, they do us harm, which we will take into account, and act accordingly going forward," he said.