“There will be no winners in the new Cold War, only losers ... No country wants a cold war, China does not want one,” TASS quotes him as saying.
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the policy of Western countries is bringing the world closer to the abyss of a big war in which there will be no winner.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed concern that the United States and its allies are dangerously teetering on the brink of direct armed conflict with Russia, which would be fraught with nuclear escalation.