Pushilin announced NATO’s entry into direct confrontation with Russia

NATO countries have entered into a direct confrontation with Russia. Such an opinion expressed Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“We saw an increase in the military presence of NATO countries near the Russian borders long before the start of a special military operation. NATO has been involved in the conflict from the very beginning and every day they are more openly demonstrating their presence,” he said, commenting on the words of the chairman of the NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer in interview Portuguese TV channel RTP about NATO’s readiness for a direct confrontation with Russia.

Pushilin also pointed to the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine and noted the deployment of new NATO battlegroups in southeastern Europe and the Baltics.

Earlier, the Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that the United States and other NATO countries are becoming parties to the conflict, supplying weapons to Kyiv. January 23 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed outthat in the context of hostilities in Ukraine, one can speak of an “almost real war” of the West against Russia, and not a hybrid one.

The day before, January 30, in the Kremlin declaredthat the West is waging a proxy war against the Russian Federation. Against the background of reports about the transfer of tanks to Kyiv, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov also pointed out on the growth of the direct involvement of Western countries in the conflict in Ukraine.