“As for NATO and contacts.

These contacts do not exist.

You know that at one time NATO stopped any substantive contacts with our country.

Therefore, at the moment it is very difficult to talk about such contacts, ”he said.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that NATO was zombifying neighboring countries with Russophobic horror stories.

At the same time, he added that Russia does not need anything from the West.