The risk of a major war breaking out in Middle East it is “very high” afterwards the assassination of the Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah. The Kremlin spokesman said this: Dmitri Peskovin response to his assessment of the current situation in the Middle East. Peskov stressed that the “non-selective” Israeli bombing of residential areas in Lebanon causes a huge number of victims. «This will inevitably lead to a humanitarian catastrophe like the one we see in Gaza. These consequences cannot leave us indifferent, they arouse our deep concern”, underlined the same source.
Russia on Saturday strongly condemned Nasrallah’s assassination and warned that it will have “even more dramatic consequences for Lebanon and the entire Middle East.” According to Moscow, Israel was aware of this danger, but still decided to act and “kill Lebanese citizens, which will almost inevitably provoke a new wave of violence.” The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that “all responsibility for the subsequent escalation” will fall exclusively on Israel, which urged it to immediately cease hostilities.