“Russia has once again demonstrated its ability and willingness to use force and the threat of force to achieve its goals.

Unfortunately, I am afraid that this is a new reality for which we must be prepared, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said earlier that Moscow was no longer interested in the words of the “downed NATO pilot Stoltenberg”.

On February 16, the NATO Secretary General announced that the alliance "will continue to denounce the aggressive plans of Russia."

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted, he stopped considering Jens Stoltenberg's statements, as the head of the alliance "lost touch with reality."