Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stated Russia will counter infringements on its vital interests and ultimatums. He cited the collapse of the Euro-Atlantic security model due to the Ukraine conflict, Western militarization, and the US abandoning arms control treaties.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stated that the Ukraine conflict, provoked and planned by the West, has caused the complete collapse of the Euro-Atlantic security model. He cited decades of Western expansion eastward, NATO's proximity to Russian borders, and the sabotage of the Minsk agreements as contributing factors.
Russian Ambassador-at-Large Alexander Trofimov stated that the security concept based on Euro-Atlantic mechanisms has "gone bankrupt and spectacularly collapsed." He argued that European nations, NATO, and the EU have discredited European security, rendering it meaningless for Russia. Trofimov accused European political classes of justifying their existence by fabricating threats from Russia and Belarus, while asserting that Russia's actions have never targeted Western European interests.
