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| Russia perceives NATO exercises as a security threat, Peskov said |
| 2024-02-01 |
| Direct Translation via Googler Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russia perceives the start of the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War as a threat to its security, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on January 31. “This is a threat to us, that’s how we treat it. And appropriate measures for this are constantly being taken - especially against the backdrop of how the alliance has been continuously moving its military infrastructure towards our borders for several decades,” Peskov said. NATO was conceived as an instrument of confrontation and is now being used as such under US control, Peskov added. As Regnum reported, NATO spokesman Dylan White on January 24 announced the start of the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise on January 31. The maneuvers are planned to take place until May 2024. According to the legend of the exercises, one of the countries of the military bloc is attacked by a fictional country from the east. The maneuvers are planned to be carried out in territories from Romania to Norway. 90,000 military personnel from 31 NATO countries and Sweden will participate in them. During the maneuvers, bringing troops into combat readiness, training and operational transfer of units will be practiced. This will be NATO's largest exercise since the end of the Cold War. Peskov previously noted that Moscow has no illusions about who exactly these exercises are aimed at. NATO’s plans to conduct large-scale exercises near the borders of Russia are an outright provocation and pose a threat to Europe, stated in turn the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova. |
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