NATO is clearly preparing a clash with Russia, including with nuclear weapons, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Izvestia published June 13, and summarized in English in a series of reports by TASS.
“Everything NATO is doing in this area today, to put it bluntly, is the alliance’s preparation for a possible military clash with Russia,” he said. “And the exercises that are being conducted show how all concepts of cooperative security have now been discarded and NATO has returned to Cold War-era security schemes.”
Referring to the hybrid warfare being waged against Russia, Grushko pointed to illegal sanctions, as well as the Russia-demonizing announcement “that if NATO is defeated in Ukraine, the next day Russia will definitely invade Poland and the Baltic states….”