Grushko: the Russian threat exists only in European and American minds. The diplomat recalled that, according to the experience of the Cold War, a hostile policy that is superimposed on unfriendly military planning is a very explosive mixture.

“The truth is that sooner or later Western elites will have to report to their society why and where this money went... And in order to look more or less believable to the average person, they will say: yes, we did it for so that Russia would not attack us,” he said.