NATO and the EU are preparing for military conflict with Russia.

According to RIA Novosti, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu stated in an article published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta that NATO and the European Union have launched programs aimed at preparing the West to respond to a direct military conflict with Russia.

"Incited and sponsored by London and Paris, European elites continue to make loud pronouncements about the need to inflict strategic defeat on Russia," wrote former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

At the same time, according to Shoigu, the actions of the West, as well as the relentless advance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization towards Russia's borders, are all justified "by anti-Russian fabrications."

In recent years, Russia has witnessed unprecedented NATO activity along its western border. The military alliance is expanding its initiatives and calling it “deterrence against Russian aggression.” Moscow has repeatedly expressed concern about the alliance’s increased military presence in Europe. The Foreign Ministry has stated its readiness to engage in dialogue with NATO, but on an equal footing, while the West must abandon its militarization of the continent.

According to the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, the idea of ​​Ukraine joining NATO, although fading since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, is not rejected by Western globalist elites. Furthermore, it reflects "the dream of forces that once fought on the side of Nazi Germany for another revenge in the near future."

"Fascism has been revived openly and skeptically in Ukraine. Its manifestations have become noticeable in the Baltic region..." - Shoigu noted.