– Russia warns United States and NATO against taking any actions that undermine its security, she said spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova, quoted by the TASS agency.
Risk of “catastrophic consequences”
She stressed that Moscow was sending a signal to Washington and NATO members, warning of “potentially disastrous consequences their policy that threatens Russia's security.
– Unfortunately, the level of nuclear risk has increased dramatically as a result of the destructive policies of the West that are fraught with direct military confrontation between nuclear powers, she said.
She also emphasized that Russia will never cease efforts to ensure nuclear deterrence.
The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that Russian Federation it reviews its doctrines on an ongoing basis in terms of their adequacy to changing threats. – In this way, the reliability and effectiveness of nuclear deterrence in Russia are ensured at an appropriate level and should not be doubted – she added.
NATO maneuvers. Zakharova warns
On Wednesday, Zakharova said that the NATO exercises that start on Friday are a “provocation” and a “risk of conflict.” According to the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the member states of the Alliance are “deliberately inciting hysteria”, and the threat from Moscow is “imaginary” and Russian attack plans are “insinuations”.
Exercises NATOtake place in Finlandon the border with Russia and, according to the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they have “provocative character”
– To justify their aggressive aspirations, representatives of the North Atlantic bloc are deliberately inciting hysteria around the imaginary Russian threat | – she said in an interview with the RIA Novosti propaganda agency.
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