NATO De Facto at 'War' With Russia in Ukraine, Kremlin Says
President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson has claimed that NATO is "de facto" at war with Moscow, citing the transatlantic alliance's deepening support for Ukraine as Kyiv continues to fight against Russia's full-scale invasion of the country.
In an interview with the Russian Izvestia newspaper published Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov condemned NATO's "united front" and accused the alliance of exacerbating Russia's conflict with Ukraine, which has been ongoing since 2014.
"NATO countries are effectively showing a united front not as our maneuver enemies, but as adversaries," Peskov said. "Their intel has been working against us round the clock, while their weapons, as Putin said in a recent interview, are being supplied to Ukraine for free to shoot at our military."
"Commitments are made and collective decisions are made within NATO on new supplies, on new batches of weapons with a constant increase in their technical level," Peskov added, referring to the sophistication of Western weapons now being sent to Ukraine after a year of lobbying by Kyiv and its advocates.
