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2 of March, 20:01

Grushko: NATO spent about 200 military action on the Eastern borders
NATO countries spent about 200 events a military nature on the Eastern borders in the framework of enhanced activity of the Commonwealth in the area, said Russia's envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko.

"for example, this plan also provides for the strengthening of military activity that we see in practice every day. It is known that held was supposedly 200 measures of a military nature on the Eastern borders of NATO, most importantly, in the Baltic sea, the Baltic countries and Poland and in the Black sea, " said Grushko in broadcast television channel ".

The member countries of the NATO 5 September at a conference in Wales adopted a plan to strengthen the collective defence of the Commonwealth and agreed on the parameters of new rapid reaction force in response to Russia's policy toward Ukraine.

Units of the rapid reaction forces NATO for defence of the Eastern European members of the Commonwealth will be at least several thousand soldiers, deployable, said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, at that moment, the head of NATO.

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