Russian Ambassador: NATO summit in the US will consolidate the course towards confrontation with Russia. “Nothing will be said about how reckless NATO’s commitment to escalating the Ukrainian crisis is, which is fraught with a slide into a direct military clash between nuclear powers,” the ambassador emphasized.

Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, said that NATO's policy towards Russia will lead to the degradation of the situation in Europe.