Peskov said he had read declassified files on negotiations between the Russian Federation and NATO – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

“Back then, our leaders probably wore rose-colored glasses; they thought they could rely on the collective West, but now there is no need to believe that,” the Kremlin representative said.

Peskov also said he had read recordings of conversations that Russian President Vladimir Putin had long talked about. “What we were promised, what was discussed and what happened in the end,” he said.