Petropavlovskaya weakness

Russia can occupy the Baltic countries in two days and capture Kyiv. According to Radio Prague, this was stated by Czech General Peter Pavel, who will take office on June 1 as chairman of the NATO military committee.

Paul noted that the North Atlantic Alliance in such a situation "could not adequately respond." Russia, the general explained, is able to decide on the occupation of the Baltic countries in a matter of hours. Meanwhile, NATO with its 28 members will spend too much time for coordination of actions. The decision to start a war with a nuclear power would be not easy, said the new head of the military committee.

The day before, US President Barack Obama said at the end of negotiations with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that Russia is taking an increasingly aggressive position in the conflict in Ukraine. The American leader mentioned new battles near Mariupol, as well as the provocative raids of Russian aircraft and submarines in Europe. For NATO, "test time, important time," he remarked.

At the end of August 2014, Vladimir Putin told the then President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa: "If I want, I will take Kiev in two weeks ." When the Italian La Repubblica reported this,the Kremlin assured that Putin’s words were torn from context. At the same time, officials did not explain how to interpret the words of the Russian leader.

In mid -September, it became known that Putin, in a conversation with the President of Ukraine Peter Poroshenko, said: "If I wanted to, he would introduce troops not only to Kiev for two days, but also to Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw and Bucharest ."