Moscow, 'we are in a phase of hot war with the US'

(ANSA) - ROME, 05 APR - Russia and the US have entered a phase of "hot conflict", Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Sputnik radio.

"We are now in the stage of a heated conflict with the United States. We are witnessing this state's direct involvement in a hybrid war with Russia in a variety of areas. Some forms of this war are simply unprecedented - they simply did not exist and could not exist during the war cold", Ryabkov denounced according to reports from RIA Novosti.

(HANDLE).