MOSCOW
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized NATO’s plans on Tuesday to extend the variety of high-readiness forces in Europe to greater than 300,000 troops.
“NATO is an aggressive bloc, it is a bloc that was created for functions of confrontation and it continues to show its nature and to implement its, set by default, duties,” Peskov mentioned at a information briefing in Moscow.
He mentioned NATO’s eastward enlargement is a course of that has been ongoing for no less than twenty years.
“And this creeping enlargement has its continuation, we’re nicely conscious of it,” he mentioned.
NATO Secretary0General Jens Stoltenberg introduced Monday that the alliance plans to strengthen fight teams on its japanese borders and to extend the variety of high-readiness troops from 40,000 to greater than 300,000.
Commenting on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s assertion that he would really like hostilities to cease earlier than the chilly season start, Peskov mentioned Kyiv can cease the battle by the top of the day by ordering troopers to put down their arms and settle for Russia’s circumstances.
“The Ukrainian aspect might cease the whole lot by the top of the present day, for that may be a vital order for nationalist models to put down their arms, an order for the Ukrainian navy to put down their arms, and it’s vital to satisfy the circumstances of the Russian Federation. And the whole lot might be over earlier than the top of the day,” mentioned Peskov.
Russia doesn’t have phrases to finish its particular navy operation however the set duties are being applied and set objectives are being achieved, he mentioned.
