The conflict in Ukraine was used NATO to justify the existence of the Commonwealth, said permanent Commissioner of Russia to the organization Alexander Grushko. "NATO began to lose sense of your purpose in the new security environment, when there is no big enemy. The events in Ukraine were used to pull out NATO from the perspective of the political wilderness and then place it in the center of European transatlantic agenda ", √ said Grushko in an interview to television channel " Russia 24 ", reports news Agency. According to Russia's Ambassador, " the United States, is trying to build its allies in line. This is another way to unite Europe around the United States." The envoy believes that the projection of forces on Russia and Eastern borders leads to the scrapping of all views on the construction of mutual security based on cooperation and not on confrontation." we are now in the position (I mean all the Euro-Atlantic community), when you increase the risks of returning to the schemes of the cold war, and so far there is no indication that NATO will change the course ", √ said Grushko. On the first day of the week the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced the opening of the Kiev office of NATO. September 3, the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the stay of the US military in Ukraine violates the Minsk agreement. On the same day the commander of the sixth fleet of the U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Foggo stated that the naval forces of the United States are trying to maintain an almost continuous presence in the Black sea. 31 August in Ukraine were initiated multinational military exercise Sea Breeze 2015 with the participation of NATO countries. It was stated that this year the Sea Breeze exercises will be the most extensive in recorded history, involving up to 2, 5 thousand Soldiers from different countries.