“We are fulfilling NATO's mission today.

They do not shed their blood, we shed ours, so they are required to supply weapons, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Reznikov said that Western politicians believe that Kyiv "is like a real shield covering the entire civilized world, the entire West."

Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for the supply of additional weapons to Kyiv, calling the weapons "the path to peace."

According to retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter, Russia was ahead of Ukraine's plans to seize the Donbass and entered into a confrontation with NATO.