Kremlin spokesman: Black Sea will “never” be NATO sea

WORLD, April 13 (YPA) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, responded on Thursday to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba’s comment that it is time to “turn the Black Sea into what the Baltic Sea became – a NATO sea.

He said the Black Sea will “never” be controlled by the alliance. “This is a common sea for all coastal states, it should be a sea of ​​cooperation, interaction and security,” he told reporters.

Peskov also confirmed that there are currently no scheduled phone calls between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

He repeated that “provoking China is unacceptable,” referring to the escalating crisis between China and Taiwan.

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