Former President of Russia Boris Yeltsin called Ukraine “the main destabilizing factor” in the 1990s, declassified in the United States. documents.
Information on this can be found in a transcript of Yeltsin’s first two meetings with US President George W. Bush in 1992, a post from Secretary of State James Baker, and a telegram from the American embassy in Russia.
“This is off the record. Yeltsin told Bush that our main destabilizing factor is Ukraine.
He said we are talking about 11 million ethnic Russians oppressed by nationalists in Ukraine.
Yeltsin also asked Bush if Russia and the United States remained enemies, and the Russian president was assured that they were not.
Former US President Bill Clinton said He told Boris Yeltsin and Russian leader Vladimir Putin that he had offered Russia to join NATO.
Source: Gazeta
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