Peskov: NATO is de facto in direct armed confrontation with Russia

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that NATO countries are de facto fighting as a single bloc with Russia. Interfax reports this with reference to Peskov’s interview with the Izvestia newspaper.

“In fact, now NATO acts as a single bloc no longer as our conditional opponents, but as enemies. Their intelligence is working against us 24 hours a day, their weapons, as Putin emphasized in a recent interview, are supplied to Ukraine free of charge and shoot at our military — not to mention that they are shooting at Ukrainian citizens, shelling Ukrainian cities and villages, – commitments are made and collective decisions are made within NATO on new deliveries, on new batches of weapons with a constant increase in their technical level. These countries – France, England, the United States – are now in the same organization that is de facto at war with us, is in a state of direct armed confrontation with us, given their weapons in Ukraine,” Peskov said.

Peskov added that in the statements of Western countries after the announcement of the suspension of Russia’s participation in the START, one can see an uncompromising unwillingness to take into account Russia’s concerns.

“Judging by the fact that within an hour after the world heard the president’s decision, we witnessed official statements from the NATO Secretary General, the State Department, and from the White House, of course, this was sensitive information for them. In the statements, we heard a rather uncompromising condemnation of Russia and the absence of any willingness to take into account the concerns of the Russian Federation, ”said the press secretary of the Russian president.

Peskov also said that Western countries “stubbornly do not want to hear Putin’s words.”