Moscow:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the military to fortify the country’s western borders so that no one would ever think of launching an attack.
Peskov told the main television network in neighboring Belarus that unnamed countries were bolstering their military potential near Russia’s western borders. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was working on a security plan, he said.
“Of course this will be done in a way to keep us safe and make sure we reach the required level of parity so it doesn’t get into anyone’s mind…to attack us,” he said.
Putin sent troops on Feb. 24 for what he calls a “special military operation” to demilitarize Russia’s southwestern neighbor Ukraine. Western countries call it an unprovoked war of aggression.
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