"I told NATO, the Americans, the Germans, don't push us towards military action. Otherwise there will be a European war for sure and possibly world war."
— Boris Yeltsin

January 1, 1970

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Speaking on television about the NATO intervention in Kosovo, as quoted by The Guardian (April 1999)