Patrushev: a number of NATO exercises more like provocation than on maneuvers
Individual NATO exercises more like provocation than on maneuvers, but Russia treats such interventions by the Commonwealth on trumped up reasons, said the Secretary of the Russian security Council Nikolai Patrushev.
He clarified the term that the United States used about the closest neighbors of Russia - " the frontline of the Country."
"against this background, declared about the fact that the NATO military command plans to deploy there is a contingent of up to 30 thousand people, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg informed about the most significant empowerment of the Commonwealth since the cold war. Some NATO action more like provocation than on maneuvers, " said Patrushev in the conversation.
as an example, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council led NATO exercises with the name "Hedgehog" that " by a strange coincidence, NATO decided to spend time in those days, when all is still not lost the historical memory of the world celebrated the 70-th anniversary of Victory in great Patriotic war ".
"in the West tend to whip up hysteria on the issue of any occurrence in international airspace of the Russian aircraft that are on regular duty. Already 1st year they are caught and do not have the ability to detect Russian submarines, as if to penetrate into Scandinavian waters. We restrained attitude demarches to the North Atlantic Commonwealth on trumped up reasons", He added.
NATO allies amid dispute with Russia over Ukraine told about the number of measures to increase military activities in the European Union, including the strengthening of rapid response forces, the growth of U.S. troops on the continent, the dramatic expansion of the program of exercises and patrols, as well as the growth of military spending. Russia said that the story is about the unprecedented expansion of the NATO at its borders.