MOSCOW. July 11 (Interfax) - The attributes of the Cold War are returning, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said commenting on U.S. plans to deploy long-range weapons in Germany.
"We are confidently heading towards a Cold War. All this already happened. Same Germany, the United States, France, Britain are directly involved in the conflict around Ukraine and all Cold War attributes, with the confrontation, with the direct standoff, are returning," Peskov said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, the author and host of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program, when asked to comment on the U.S. plans to deploy long-range missiles in Germany.
A fragment of the interview was published by Zarubin on his Telegram channel.
All this is being done in order to suppress Russia, he said.
"All this is being done to ensure our strategic defeat on the battlefield. We must take all that into account. This is no reason for pessimism. On the contrary, this is a reason to get together and to employ all of our richest potential that we have, and fulfill all those goals that we have set ourselves during the special military operation," Peskov said.
The U.S. will deploy a large number of strategic weapons in Germany, including hypersonic missile systems currently in development, the White House said earlier.