The White House said that NATO does not threaten Russia, and called the order of President Vladimir Putin on a special mode of combat duty in the strength of the consideration of Russia by the reaction to the threats, “which there is no”.
“Never Russia has been threatened by NATO, by Ukraine,” said the press secretary of the American administration Jen Psaki in an interview with ABC TV channel, RIA Novosti reports.
According to her, “First of all, this is a model of behavior that we see by President Putin throughout this conflict. It consists in creating threats that do not exist to justify further aggression.”
Earlier on Sunday, Putin instructed to translate Russian consideration for the special service regime. According to Putin, “Western countries are taking not only unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere”, but also “illegitimate sanctions”. “The top officials of the leading countries of NATO allow both aggressive statements in the address of our country. Therefore, I order the minister of defense and the head of the General Staff to translate the consideration of the consideration of the Russian army into a special way of carrying combat duty,” Putin emphasized.