Mikhail Gorbachev warning

The last leader of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, Saturday, warned that the world is on the brink of a new cold war He said Gorbachev, aged 83 years, said that "the world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Some even say that the war has already begun", amid tensions between the West and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. He talked about the "collapse of confidence" in recent months, adding: "Let us remember that there can be no security in Europe without the Russian-German partnership," according to the news agency quoted "AFP" for the German news agency. His comments came during his participation in the effectiveness of cinema organized by the Peace Foundation, which was founded in Berlin in 2008, at a ceremony to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And participate Gorbachev, which paved the reforms openness of the Soviet Union, the way for the fall of the wall in the ninth of November 1989, the effectiveness of which will last 3 days in the German capital on the occasion of the collapse of the wall. In an interview with the Radio and Television Network "RTS" Swiss, scheduled to be broadcast Sunday, Gorbachev said, "we began to see new walls. In Ukraine want to dig a huge trench." The former Soviet leader pointed out that NATO "NATO" is no longer necessary. Gorbachev continued, explaining that the alliance "just wants to prove that he can save the world." And Thursday, said he would seek to defend the Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies when they go to Germany, and said that he was convinced that the Ukrainian crisis provided a "pretext" for the United States to harass Russia.