Russia warns, NATO membership would exacerbate Ukraine’s crisis

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday that several million pro-Russia residents in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region considered joining the Western alliance “deeply unacceptable.” “We deeply doubt that it (Ukraine’s admission to NATO) will somehow help Ukraine to deal with its internal problem. From our point of view, it will only exacerbate the situation further because people’s opinions cannot be overlooked in any way when you talk about joining NATO,” Peskov stated, adding, “And if you ask opinions of several million people in the self-proclaimed republics, you will understand that such a membership in NATO is deeply unacceptable…