Ukraine defence minister: We are a de facto member of Nato alliance
Oleksii Reznikov’s comments are set to provoke Russia, which frames the war as a battle with the West. …
He dismissed concerns that the announcements could trigger a Russian response, despite now-familiar threats from Moscow. “I have a war in my country,” he said. “They’re hitting my cities, my hospital, my kindergartens, my schools. They killed a lot of civilians, a lot of civilians. They’re an army of rapists, murderers and looters. What’s the next level of escalation?”