Putin: Russia has no interest in waging war with NATO countries

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has no interest in going to war with NATO countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Putin made the remarks in an interview with the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the TV channel "Rossiya-1", a fragment of which journalist Pavel Zarubin posted on his Telegram channel.

"The entire NATO organization cannot but understand that Russia has no reason, no interest - no geopolitical interest, no economic, political or military - to go to war with NATO countries," TASS quotes the president as saying.

Putin assured that Moscow and NATO countries have "no territorial claims to each other" and "no desire to spoil relations with them".