Russian Foreign Ministry: NATO preparing for direct clash with Russia
NATO member states and the alliance as a whole are preparing for a direct conflict with Russia – as stated by Anton Mazur, the Deputy Director of the Department for Non-proliferation and Arms Control at the Russian Foreign Ministry, TASS reports
“We not only see NATO countries and the alliance itself being drawn into the Ukraine conflict. We also see that preparations for direct confrontation with Russia have already begun,” Anton Mazur noted at the plenary session of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation.
According to him, the relevant plans include ‘increasing the number of troops and weapons, their redeployment to the east, increasing military production, developing military transport infrastructure, creating strategic reserves, dehumanising Russians via propaganda and even building prisoner of war camps’.
“At the same time, NATO countries, on the one hand, declare their non-participation in the conflict, and on the other hand, they do everything they can to ‘inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield’. They are climbing the escalation ladder step by step and have already gone from non-lethal means to long-range missiles. Next in line are combat aircraft, designed as dual-use weapons,” the Russian diplomat stressed.
