The military potential and capabilities of almost all NATO countries were used against Russia after the start of the NWO, Sergei Shoigu said. The plan of the United States and its allies is aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow, creating a threat to Beijing and maintaining their monopoly position in the world, he added.
Russia was left with no other options but to eliminate the threats emanating from the territory of Ukraine by military means, the Russian Defense Minister stressed. The West spent more than $ 5 billion "on the Maidan anti-constitutional coup in 2014," which led to the formation of a "hostile nationalist, Russophobic regime"