Russia’s General Staff Deputy Chief General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn
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Nogovitsyn Says NATO’s Aid to Georgia Provokes Conflict
Reestablishment of Georgian Army with the help of NATO is the key factor of provoking tension in the area of Georgia’s-South Ossetia’s conflict, Russia’s General Staff Deputy Chief General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn announced Wednesday.
“We regard this “peacekeeping” [of NATO], in time when the aggressor that had been so generously supplied with armaments is recovering again, as a clear provoking factor, another blitzkrieg,” Nogovitsyn said during the news conference in RIA Novosti.
Russia’s military would be proposing “definite adequate actions” to the political leadership of the country to neutralize this threat, the general pointed out.
Russia won’t return to the United States the weapons of its make that were captured in the conflict area of Georgia and South Ossetia, Nogovitsyn made clear. “On what ground? There is the notion – combat trophy,” he explained, specifying, however, that Russia doesn’t need such weapons. “Collecting everything that shoots isn’t our style. To the contrary, our models [of weapons] are being sold, and we aren’t going to exchange Kalashnikov sub-machine gun for a rifle [of U.S. make].”
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