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March 8th, 2015, 08:59 AM
BRUSSELS -- NATO has an extensive history of "hybrid operations," Russian Permanent Representative to NATO Aleksandr Grushko has said.
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The Russian official cited the former Yugoslavia as an example.
"Each country or organization can learn from the experience of the Alliance," said Grushko.
Russia is frequently accused by the west of conducing "a hybrid war" in Ukraine using methods that are not of a military nature, TASS reported.
"We were eyewitnesses of the perfectly well-known signs of a military blackmail, covert interference, supplies of weaponry and defense systems, diplomatic hypocrisy, manipulations with mass media, and explicit misinformation in the former Yugoslavia and in Libya in 2011."
NATO officials "habitually cite precisely this set of assets of a hybrid war when they accuse Russia of inventing a new kind of military operation and applying it in Ukraine," the news agency said.
The Russian official's comments came after Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, now deputy secretary general of NATO, said on Thursday that during Vladimir Putin's presidency Russia developed "a new form of hybrid warfare".
Vershbow was addressing an inter-parliamentary conference on EU’s common foreign and security policy in Latvia when he said the aim of the Russian president was to turn Ukraine into a failed state and suppress and discredit "alternative voices" in Russia, in order to prevent "a Russian Maidan."
Source:
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2015&mm=03&dd=06&nav_id=93397,
http://www.b92.net/news/pics/2015/03/06/114745695654f9810456cf9932333806_v4big.jpg
The Russian official cited the former Yugoslavia as an example.
"Each country or organization can learn from the experience of the Alliance," said Grushko.
Russia is frequently accused by the west of conducing "a hybrid war" in Ukraine using methods that are not of a military nature, TASS reported.
"We were eyewitnesses of the perfectly well-known signs of a military blackmail, covert interference, supplies of weaponry and defense systems, diplomatic hypocrisy, manipulations with mass media, and explicit misinformation in the former Yugoslavia and in Libya in 2011."
NATO officials "habitually cite precisely this set of assets of a hybrid war when they accuse Russia of inventing a new kind of military operation and applying it in Ukraine," the news agency said.
The Russian official's comments came after Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, now deputy secretary general of NATO, said on Thursday that during Vladimir Putin's presidency Russia developed "a new form of hybrid warfare".
Vershbow was addressing an inter-parliamentary conference on EU’s common foreign and security policy in Latvia when he said the aim of the Russian president was to turn Ukraine into a failed state and suppress and discredit "alternative voices" in Russia, in order to prevent "a Russian Maidan."
Source:
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2015&mm=03&dd=06&nav_id=93397,