TASHKENT. May 28 (Interfax) - Moscow is closely following the situation and certain statements following NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's remarks on the possibility of strikes inside Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"This is definitely a serious thing, and we're following and watching this most seriously," Putin said at a press conference following Russian-Uzbek top-level talks in Tashkent.
"As for everything currently surrounding the events on the approaches to Kharkov, it was they who provoked the events in that area themselves," Putin said.