US President Donald Trump said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not attack NATO territory, reports infohub.kz.
According to the American leader, Moscow has no intention of attacking the North Atlantic Alliance. "I'm not concerned at all. There is no problem," Trump said in a phone interview with Axios.
Trump's remarks come amid a visit by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow. On Tuesday, he met with the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin.
Several media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, reported that the trip might have been related to delivering a warning to Moscow about the inadmissibility of attacking NATO countries. However, Trump denied this information as well. According to him, Ratcliffe's visit was "a routine working trip."
"Ratcliffe meets with his Russian counterpart once every six months or once a year. They have very good relations. There was no message, and nothing unusual happened," Trump said.
Meanwhile, European leaders have recently expressed public concern about possible Russian actions against NATO, Reuters reports. This includes potential limited military provocations that could test the alliance's readiness to uphold the principle of collective defense enshrined in Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
European and US intelligence agencies also continue to cite Russian actions in the so-called "gray zone," which, according to Reuters, are aimed at weakening NATO unity and support for Ukraine.
Earlier, Kursiv reported on whom Trump threatened with draconian sanctions.