The Russian Embassy in Washington was concerned that the United States allow for the possibility of clashes troops of the two countries. It is stated in the statement by the press Secretary of the Russian Embassy in the United States Nicholas Lihonina, reports “Interfax”.
“A concern that the document of the Ministry of defense of the United States, is intended for internal use, seriously, the possibility of clashes between American and Russian aircraft. This can be represented only in a terrible fever!” — said in a statement.
It is noted that the guide offers concrete steps on the methods of training of personnel for action against the Russian military. “This kind of certificate training to direct U.S. military conflict with Russia have been extremely disturbing, especially in the current difficult situation in the sphere of European security,” — said Lahonin.
He added that the Handbook is in contradiction with the constructive nature of last week’s meetings of the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and us Secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
“We need pragmatic cooperation on key security challenges our two countries, and not replicating the horror stories,” added Lahonin.
September 24 edition of The National Interest reported that the command of the U.S. army published a Handbook on how to counteract the strategy of “Russian hybrid war”. In the 62-page document includes photo and information about Russian art, which could be used for waging asymmetrical war and was involved in the “Russian operations in Ukraine and in the Crimea.” The press service of the Pentagon said the allowance is not related to the public policy of Washington.