🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question

❓: Dear Ambassador Antonov, how could you comment on the wide range of anti-Russian decisions declared on July 11th at the NATO Summit?

💬 Anatoly Antonov: The statements in Vilnius confirmed the anti-Russian drive of NATO. Without exaggeration, Russia is identified as the main threat to the North Atlantic Alliance. All the bloc's resources have been thrown into the fight against our country. Defense contractors are profiting off the “hybrid war” unleashed by Washington while ordinary citizens in Western countries are paying for it. Few here care about the fate of Ukrainians, thrusted by U.S. and NATO curators into a "slaughterhouse".

📌 We are stunned by the outright falsification of the truth, which is used by the Summit participants to justify their aggressive policy against Russia. Our enemies without any evidence are trying to lay on us the responsibility for the crisis of the European security architecture. Once again they pretend that they know nothing about the promise, given to Mikhail Gorbachev by ex-Secretary of State James Baker about non-expansion of NATO to the East. After the collapse of the USSR Washington and its European satellites deliberately brought the military infrastructure closer to our borders, creating unacceptable threats to the security of the Russian Federation.

📌 Moreover, the North Atlantic bloc is still talking about an “unprovoked Russian invasion”, while Jens Stoltenberg admitted that the Alliance had been preparing Ukraine for a conflict since 2014. NATO members have the impudence to talk about the "defensive nature" of the Alliance and that there is no desire for a confrontation with us.

❓The question arises - what is the United States trying to achieve by supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions and other lethal weapons despite the opinion of its own human rights activists and partners? Why is Washington praising Germany and France for transferring long-range missiles to Kiev criminals? Why is it demanding Kiev to continue its offensive against the Russian regions, although it is already clear to everyone that the Ukrainian army has no chance for success?

☝️ The answer is simple. The United States is ready to teeter on the edge of the abyss for the sake of maintaining its dominance in the international arena. It cannot bear the thought of losing its global leadership based on controlling other countries with a colonial bridle and siphoning off their wealth. It pulls its allies toward the conflict. At the same time, it prefers to send Ukrainians for slaughter.

📌 The meeting in Vilnius has demonstrated the bloc's intention to concentrate more and more troops on Russian borders. We have nowhere to retreat. The aggressive decisions of the Summit will not undermine Russia's confidence in the rightness of its actions. We have no doubt that all goals of the Special Military Operation will be fully achieved.