Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that if the U.S. decides to leave NATO, “The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent.” President Donald Trump has frequently threatened to leave the alliance.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Zelensky told moderator Kristen Welker that Russian President Vladimir Putin would send troops to former Soviet nations. “They will begin” by occupying “small countries who’ve been in the U.S.S.R., in the Soviet Union.”
“We will see what will be the answer,” he said of the scenario where the U.S. leaves NATO. “But Europe will not answer because they don’t have — they will begin to defend itself. Each country defend itself… So Russia will get all the successes with all the territory they will want.”
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