The North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] de facto got involved in the conflict in Ukraine, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov assured.

“NATO has already de facto entered the Ukrainian conflict. But this in no way affects our goals, that is, the operation continues and will be completed.

NATO assistance to Ukraine significantly complicates the situation, but the potential of the Russian Federation allows us to continue the special military operation even under these conditions.

It is now substantially more difficult for Moscow because of the fact that NATO is supporting Kyiv.

This will probably require our internal economic and other mobilization. One thing is the regime in Kiev and another thing is the potential of NATO. This is an additional burden. But our potential allows us to continue the operation in these conditions”, - the Kremlin spokesman said.