Alexey Bogdanovsky. NATO no longer considers the Russian Federation as a partner, told reporters on Thursday, the commander of the NATO forces in the European Union Philip Breedlove.

"Power in the European Union for 20 years were planned size for the position in which We looked at the Russian Federation as a partner. We have reduced the number of our forces more than 75% since the cold war, " said Breedlove.

"currently We are seeing that the Russian Federation has demonstrated that he is not a partner," he added. Before Thursday, delivering a speech in the U.S. Senate, Breedlove said that the channels of communication between the military leadership of NATO and Russia remain, but are rarely used.

amid disagreements with NATO allies on Ukraine, Russia has said it is very quickly increased NATO activity near its borders, and NATO, for its part, stated that "unusual" activity of the Russian military. The NATO Alliance has officially announced about temporary suspension of cooperation with Russia.

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