The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stressed that in the context of the all-out hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia, it would be naive to count on the absence of any military-technical countermeasures from Moscow.

Moscow reserves the right to take the necessary additional steps to ensure national security amid the West’s total hybrid war, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Monday.

"It would be naive to expect that we will not take any military and technical countermeasures in this field after the West launched a total hybrid war against Russia and the US and NATO announced plans to inflict ‘a strategic defeat’ on us. We reserve the right to take the necessary additional steps to ensure the security of Russia and its allies," the diplomat stressed.

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