Vladimir Dobrovolsky. Western pressure on the Russian Federation in connection with the Ukrainian crisis is a hybrid operation against Russia, said Russia's envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko.

"What we face today is a hybrid operation against my country. Economic Pressures, attempts to put on the Russian Federation military Pressure, for example, through the implementation of the decisions of the NATO summit in Wales, and propaganda war. Sometimes one gets the feeling that we're talking about different countries and we have different set of facts, and this is also part of this reality, " said Grushko.

He said that NATO itself is actively used methods hybrid war, for example, during operations in Yugoslavia and Libya.

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