Go to the media bankRussian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov. File photoMOSCOW, Oct. 5 Russia and the United States have not yet reached the peak of tension that was in the Caribbean crisis, said Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov.
"It seems to me that we have not yet reached the peak of tension that existed 60 years ago", he said on the air of Channel One.
The Russian position on the inadmissibility of starting a nuclear war and the impossibility of winning it remains unchanged, the ambassador stressed. Washington has already forgotten the basics of strategic stability, the essence of which boils down to a very simple formula: whoever fires first will die second.On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, I would like to believe that there are those in the United States who have learned this main lesson.In any situation, our countries must prevent the world from sliding into a catastrophe,» he added.