Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, during an interview with the Rossiya-1 TV channel yesterday, treated Moscow’s break in relations with NATO as no big deal because it reflects a reality that was already in place. “The aggressive NATO stance has never been a secret. This bloc was established against our country. Any peaceful statements, any camouflage of this aggressive NATO standing are unable to disguise real purposes of this bloc,” he said, reported TASS. He stressed that NATO is “an aggressive bloc,” which considers Russia as an adversary. “Nothing critical will happen if we just abandon these relations amid the escalating aggression and declarations aimed at restraining us.”
Peskov also pointed out that “despite the alliance’s aggressiveness, Moscow always favors the development of relations.” “Just now, when it became clear that all our efforts were futile, we simply made it official what was real,” Peskov concluded.
