“We would not recommend anyone to ‘test the waters’ and experimentally test our country’s readiness for an adequate and tough response,” he said in an interview with KP.ru.
The deputy minister warned that if NATO countries “try to openly enter Ukraine individually or as part of a coalition,” this will only lead to an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
Recall that at the beginning of the week, French President Emmanuel Macron said that his country could at some point carry out a military operation in Ukraine.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, commented on these words and highlighted the sequence of statements by the French leader, who had previously mentioned the absence of “red lines” in Paris.