The States members of NATO want to capture the geopolitical space, increase military capabilities in Eastern Europe, closer to Russia's borders, said the Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the IV Conference on international security in the Russian capital.
The Alliance rejected the propaganda clich?s of the past years of its focus on cooperation with Russia. NATO countries actively want to capture the geopolitical space, consistently increasing military capabilities in Eastern Europe, being close to the Russian border ", - said the Minister, quoted by RIA " Novosti ".
He said that " the geographic focus areas of their teachings - only the Eastern flank of the Commonwealth and the Arctic region - is evidence of anti-Russian orientation ". Shoigu also said that " lies and slander about Russia and its army have become an everyday affair in the West "." in the media in many European countries promoted the thesis about the necessity of containing Russia, " the growth of Russian military danger ", which is like require "urgent response" NATO ", - said Shoigu. First Deputy defense Minister of Russia Anatoly Antonov said that in connection with crisis in Ukraine all the positive in relations with the Alliance collapsed, NATO has taken the course of confrontation. In January, foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the assurances of the North Atlantic Commonwealth about non-expansion to the East have remained empty words, and at the same time the infrastructure of NATO has moved closer to Russia's borders. The Minister also said that NATO's transition to confrontational rhetoric and increase of its military presence close to Russian borders demonstrate the inability of the Commonwealth to cross the stereotypes of the cold war. Remember, in early January, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the Alliance has strengthened its presence in the East: the Alliance sends to the site in Eastern Europe more ships, planes and troops. In November past year, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Jens Stoltenberg has described relations between Russia and NATO is not constructive, however, assured that the Russian Federation and NATO are not in a state of cold war.

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