Russia Says US Has Become A Hostile State To Russia

By Donald Standeford, Correspondent - Follow -
Date Published: May 18, 2022 03:15AM UTC
Last Modified: May 18, 2022 03:15AM UTC

MOSCOW - Dmitry Peskov, who is a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the Western countries, including the United States which it says is currently conducting a "hybrid war" against Russia, have become 'hostile states' to the country.

Speaking at the educational marathon conference New Horizons, he said that "The hybrid war is what is happening right now, what we have encountered," he stated. "It is not confined to the US and British advisers, who are telling the armed Ukrainian nationalists what to do and who are providing them with intelligence data and so on and so forth. No. It’s a diplomatic war and a political war. There are attempts to isolate us in the world. It’s an economic war".

"It is true that we keep referring to them mildly as unfriendly states, but I should say that they are hostile states because what they are doing is war," he added.

"Take our national money that has been arrested, blocked. In other words, our dollar-and euro-denominated assets on accounts there (in the Western countries - TASS) have been frozen. In fact, they have been stolen, they are trying to be stolen. But we are going to fight for them, of course".

Russian state news TASS also reported that Peskov said that such 'manifestations of hostility' were many.