Russia to boost defense capabilities amid West’s threats
The secretary of Russia's Security Council says Moscow plans to improve defensive capabilities amid rising threats by the US and its allies.
"The Russian Security Council constantly pays attention to improvement of its military-organization system and daily bolstering of our country's defensive capabilities," said Nikolai Patrushev on Tuesday.
"In the current difficult environment where the US and its allies have embarked upon the path of confrontation with the Russian Federation, it will be no harm to remind (them) of the lessons of history again and again," he added.
Patrushev also pointed that history shows Moscow will never be intimidated by the West’s threats as the Russian nation is always ready to defend its homeland.
“In difficult times, the whole nation would come to their aid by mobilizing forces to defend the Fatherland. This is exactly why no one has been able to conquer Russia, neither Napoleon, nor Hitler, though each of them was considered a conqueror of Europe," the Russian official noted.
Patrushev’s remarks came as the United States has recently announced its plan to provide the government in Kiev with lethal weapons in its battle against pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine.
Source of conflict
The Moscow-West relations have cooled sharply after Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea joined the Russian Federation following a referendum in March 2014.
Relations were strained further after Ukraine launched military operations in April 2014 to silence the pro-Russia protests in Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking regions of Luhansk and Donetsk in the east.
Kiev and its Western allies accuse Moscow of supporting pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine, saying the Russian intervention poses a security threat to Ukraine and all other neighboring states. Russia categorically denies the allegation.
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