MOSCOW, September 14. /TASS/. Russia’s verbal signals to the West about the danger of escalation are ineffective, which means it “needs to change the nature of the signaling,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS on the sidelines of the 7th BRICS Media Summit.

“Unfortunately, verbal signals do not have the desired effect, or they do so only rarely and weakly. This means that the nature of the signaling must be changed. This has also been stated very clearly by the leadership, and I personally have nothing to add,” the senior diplomat said.

Ryabkov called on “the political and military leadership of Russia’s opponents to weigh the severity of the consequences that may result from their irresponsible, extremely dangerous actions.”

“However, they must weigh internally (if they have one) what is more important to them: the security of their country or ideas about the geopolitical course they should take in the former USSR,” the deputy minister added.

Moscow will host the BRICS Media Summit from September 13 to 17. The event will bring together the heads of leading media outlets from the group’s member states and countries that have applied to become members of BRICS. TASS is the summit’s organizer.