NATO and Russia is expected to seek a diplomatic resolution of the dispute, said on the last working day of the week in the capital of the USA Minister of defense Chuck Hagel.

during the conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the U.S. capital to Hagel was asked why America consider the Russian Federation to the enemy. Hagel avoided a direct answer, saying only that NATO does not consider itself guilty of deterioration of relations with the events in Ukraine.

" For 20 years since the destruction of the Soviet Union in relations between Russia and the U.S. and NATO with Russia Were good and bad moments. There were periods of cooperation. We do a lot together with the Russians, but We have disagreements. Clearly, what was in the Ukraine, has not been caused by the aggression of NATO, " said Hagel.

" We will continue to do what you have to do civilized Nations - to protect their desires, but also to find wise, diplomatic, smart solutions disagreements ", - added the head of the Pentagon.

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. The US used the situation to return to discussions with allies in NATO the question Of raising military expenditures in the Commonwealth countries.

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numerous anti-government protests Were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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