NATO Defense Ministers are preparing to harmonize the defense plan from Russia in several areas at a joint meeting in Brussels. This reports Reuters.
Negotiations of the heads of military departments should take place on this Thursday, October 20. As the Agency reported, prepared by NATO defense strategy from the Russian threat will include protection against attacks in the Black Sea and Baltic directions, countering nuclear, cosmic and cyber threats.
“We recognize Russia as the greatest threat of the XXI century and decide how to deal with it,” Reuters said Ben Wallace British Defense Ministry of British. At the same time, the agency with the words of sources wrote that NATO officials do not believe in the inevitability of the attack on the part of Russia.
The new plan will be consistent with the “Concept of deterrent and defense in the Euro-Atlantic region”. In essence, this is the answer to the development of Russia of the latest weapons.
On October 20, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that in the decay of bilateral relations between Russia and the Alliance, Moscow. After on October 6, ten Russian ambassadors were sent from Brussels on the charges of espionage, October 18, Russia temporarily closed the representative office and the NATO Information Bureau in Moscow. From November 1, Russia will be frozen in Brussels.