The head of the Ministry of defense of the USA Chuck Hagel said that the European members of NATO should increase defense expenditures in connection with the events in Ukraine, informs on the last working day of the week the Agency.

" We have to see the updated financial obligations of all members of NATO ", - quotes Agency the fragment of speech Hagel about NATO, published by the U.S. Department of defense.

On Tuesday, the same statement said U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry, called to increase military budgets of the countries, members of NATO.

The US spends on defence spending more than 4, 1% of the world's largest GDP, and at the same time, among other NATO countries only 3 (Britain, Estonia and Greece) spend on defense than 2% of GDP.

After the exacerbation of the situation in Ukraine, the head of the Russian defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu said about unprecedented growth of activity of the military might of the USA and NATO in Eastern Europe of the Russian borders. The chief of the Russian General staff Valery Gerasimov paid attention of the head of Committee of chiefs of staff of the U.S. armed forces Martin Dempsey on the increase in the number of aviation and U.S. troops in the Baltic States and Poland and the courts of the Commonwealth in the Black sea.

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