Russia-NATO relations today can be characterized as "more than a cold war," Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on security and arms control, told Sputnik.
"In the strategic concept of the alliance, approved at the summit in Madrid in 2022, Russia is declared the most significant and direct threat. NATO plans to proceed from this aggressive and confrontational logic at least the next ten years outlined in this document. Apparently, now their ideal of European security lies in barbed wire borders with our country. As a result, Russia-NATO relations can now be described as more than a cold war," Gavrilov said.
The diplomat added that if we draw parallels between historical eras, "it is enough to remember how, during the Cold War, almost all NATO statements at the ministerial and other levels began with an assessment of the likelihood of a sudden large-scale attack by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact."