The head of Barack Obama and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed on Tuesday in the capital of the USA the situation in Ukraine and prospects of increase of the military expenses of the Commonwealth, said to the reporters of the press Secretary of the President of the USA Josh Ernest.

according to his statement, Obama and Rasmussen discussed Ukraine and the consequences of Russian aggression for the European security and defense guarantees allies." They also spoke about the need to strengthen investment in the defense and make wider defence capabilities to a wide network of partners available to the Alliance, " said Ernest.

The US, which account for the lion's share of military expenditures NATO, is promoting European allies to a sharp increase in military spending, pointing to the threat coming from Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The US and the EU did not recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia as a result of the March referendum and introduced against Russia punishment, which in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called counterproductive. The Russian military claimed that in recent months, NATO unprecedented intensified in the European Union.

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