The General Staff is concerned about the growing threat to Russia – Utro.Ru

The present international situation is characterized by a further increase of threats to global and regional security. And this is connected, first of all, with the expansion of terrorism and radical extremism, said at a briefing for foreign military attaches on Monday, December 14 Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov.

Due to the destabilization of the situation in the Middle East, African countries and Afghanistan, he said, there is a threat that terrorist activity can be transferred to the territory of Russia. This, he said, has forced our country to make a preemptive strike on militants banned in Russia “Islamic state” in Syria.

And instead to get support in this struggle, Russia has received from some of the so- called partners, said Gerasimov, stab in the back. Breaking the Syrian border, a fighter of the Turkish Air Force F-16s shot down a Russian Su-24M.

“mercantile interests in the illegal business of certain high-ranking officials of Turkey became beyond the life of law-abiding citizens of Russia, France, Mali and the same in Turkey, LIH for which terrorists commit acts of terrorism “, – said the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.

The Russian leadership and the Russian Defense Ministry were in favor, to establish contacts for Syrian problems with any nations. Moreover, the general said that in the modern history of the examples of such cooperation with Western states Russia is already there. This is Afghanistan, and negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program and the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, the fight against piracy and the Minsk agreement.

At the same time, the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces warned of the growing threat not only to an escalation of existing international conflicts, but also about the threat of new ones. The concern, he said, unfriendly NATO policy towards Russia – increasing strength and activity of the armed forces of the block on the perimeter of the Russian borders.

“As a result of the deployment of a global missile defense system and the development of fundamentally new means of warfare, including including hypersonic weapons, growing problem of violations of the existing strategic balance of forces, “- said Gerasimov.

How about an equally important issue, he pointed to the use of members of the international relations of economic, political and information tools, the protest potential of the population, radical, extremist organizations and private military companies.

The military leadership Russia sees a threat in the illegal proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational crime and drug trafficking, separatism, uncontrolled migration and xenophobia.

“In these conditions, The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the main tool for protecting the power of the state and must be able to ensure military security in any environment, as well as to solve problems in the military conflicts of varying intensity, “- said the chief of staff.