MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. The West has had the opportunity to see for itself that Russia is prepared for any turn of events and that its national security is robust, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the occasion of NATO’s 75th anniversary.
She expressed confidence that the failure of NATO’s plans in Ukraine is now pushing the North Atlantic Alliance toward taking rash actions that could have a devastating impact on global security.
"For over two years, Washington and its satellites have flooded Ukraine with mercenaries and weapons, seeking to use it to inflict a 'strategic defeat' on Russia - which is how they phrase it - and deplete our resources," Zakharova noted. "All means and methods available to the collective West and its Kiev puppets, including acts of terrorism, have been put to use in order to achieve this goal. The failure of the alliance’s adventurous plans is pushing it toward actions that could have a devastating impact on security not only in Europe, but around the world as well," she added.
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman pointed out that, before launching its special military operation, Moscow had taken steps to reduce tensions with the US and other NATO allies. In particular, draft agreements providing Russia with legal security guarantees and ruling out NATO’s eastward expansion, among other measures, were sent to Washington in late 2021. However, the North Atlantic Alliance turned out to be unprepared to de-escalate the situation and abandon its confrontational rhetoric against Russia.
"Instead, NATO began providing vigorous and direct support to the nationalist Kiev regime, pushing it toward resolving the Donbass issues by force and raising tensions with Moscow," the diplomat emphasized. "Ukraine, which was deliberately being transformed into the 'anti-Russia,' was assigned the starring role in containing our country," she said.
Summing up the results of NATO’s activities in the past two decades, Zakharova noted that after the end of the Cold War, the alliance "was engaged in finding a new raison d’etre and searching for a new purpose," but the process has "ended in failure on every front."