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Maria Zakharova criticized the statement of the Minister of Defense of Germany
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The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized the statement of the German Defense Minister, who said that NATO must show its readiness to use its armed forces against Russia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed the hope that there will be reasonable leaders in Germany who can keep the German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer from testing the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the commentary of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, circulated on Monday, reports TASS.
“On the eve of the NATO meeting, German Defense Minister A. Kramp-Karrenbauer demonstrated disinterest in a serious dialogue with Moscow on de-escalation. She stressed that NATO must show its readiness to use its armed forces against Russia. defense against a reckless desire to test the reliability of our armed forces, “- said Zakharova.
According to her, the meeting of the NATO Council once again confirmed that “the entire huge NATO colossus is still, after 70 years, aimed exclusively at containing Russia.”
“Having failed to end its era of“ big operations ”, the alliance is again, as during the Cold War, sharpening its potentials for confronting“ the enemy in the East. To this end, the NATO ministers approved a strategic plan for the implementation of the Concept of Defense and Deterrence in the Euro-Atlantic, decided to update the plans for the defense of the alliance on the “eastern flank,” said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Zakharova also said that accusations of the collapse of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles have been repeated against Russia, in response to which the alliance will continue to strengthen air defense / missile defense systems and deploy F-35 fighters.
“At the same time, NATO members no longer remember that they had previously convinced us that the missile defense system was intended solely to repel threats from Iran,” she added.
The diplomat also drew attention to the fact that the term “opponents” has entered the vocabulary of NATO representatives, which, according to her, is yet another evidence of the return of the alliance during the Cold War. At the same time, Zakharova emphasized that Russia does not threaten the alliance, but his steps and statements convince of the correctness of the decisions taken by Moscow.
We will remind, the Minister of Defense of Germany Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer statedthat NATO should take “a clear position on Russian threats.”
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