(Adnkronos) – The Secretary of the Russian National Security Council, former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, has warned the international community that the risk of a war between nuclear powers “is increasing”, and has again accused Western countries of trying to “weaken” Moscow. “In the face of increasing conflict behavior and intensifying geopolitical rivalries, global risks of military confrontation between major players, including nuclear powers, are growing,” Shoigu said. “The policy of Western countries has become openly hostile. The West has provoked and is supporting the crisis situation in Ukraine.”
Shoigu again accused NATO of expanding towards Russia’s western border and indicated that the Atlantic Alliance “is constantly lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, strengthening the nuclear component in its military planning.” “The actions of the United States and its satellites have led to a degradation of the control mechanisms for armaments and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” he said, denouncing “attempts to undermine global efforts to prevent an arms race in space.”
The secretary of the Russian Security Council stressed that “the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and other international organizations are being actively devalued.” “These actions are directly aimed at weakening our countries and seek to deprive us of our sovereignty and the right to choose our path of development and to realize our strategic interests,” denounced Shoigu, who is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged responsibility for war crimes in the invasion of Ukraine.
