Dmitry Polyansky warns the West over NATO drills near Russia, EU militarization and Russian-Belarusian exercises with non-strategic nuclear forces.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s\u00a0Permanent Representative to\u00a0the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky said Moscow will not stand idle while Western countries, in\u00a0his view, prepare for war with Russia.<\/p>\n
The diplomat said the European Union is\u00a0rapidly building up\u00a0its military capabilities, while NATO member states are holding exercises close to\u00a0Russia\u2019s\u00a0borders. He\u00a0stressed that Moscow has no\u00a0intention of\u00a0ignoring such moves.<\/p>\n
According to Polyansky, Russia must assess and pre-empt scenarios in which Western states, under the banner of \u00abfighting for peace\u00bb, are preparing for military confrontation with Moscow.<\/p>\n
Polyansky also said the second stage of\u00a0joint Russian-Belarusian drills involving non-strategic nuclear forces has begun. He\u00a0described the maneuvers as\u00a0necessary to\u00a0maintain combat readiness amid rising tensions in\u00a0Europe.<\/p>\n
The diplomat added that Russia reserves the right to\u00a0protect its citizens, infrastructure and security interests by\u00a0all available means. He\u00a0said the future direction of\u00a0the situation will largely depend on\u00a0the position taken by\u00a0Western countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dmitry Polyansky warns the West over NATO drills near Russia, EU militarization and Russian-Belarusian exercises with non-strategic nuclear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1195,1198,859,1200,1196,1199,1197,124],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dmitry-polyansky","tag-eu-militarization","tag-nato-drills","tag-non-strategic-nuclear-forces","tag-osce","tag-russia-belarus-exercises","tag-russia-border","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}