NATO is trying to turn the Black Sea into a confrontation arena, these plans create a dangerous way to develop a situation. This was stated by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko, reports TASS.
“Now they took up the Black Sea region, we are witnessing activity on the territory of Bulgaria and Romania. The Baltic Sea has already turned into ana of military rivalry. They are being dealing with the Black Sea to turn into the arena of military confrontation. This is an extremely dangerous path fraught Risks of military incidents and escalation “
According to the diplomat, the alliance is fixed faster to new military realities – close to what they were during the Cold War. Such steps – among them and the deployment of strategic weapons near Russian borders – show the correctness of Russia’s policies regarding the block.
On October 6, the NATO decided to reduce the number of employees of the Russian diplomacy at the Military Alliance in Brussels from 20 to 10 people. The next day, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia’s subsequent employees belonged to “unnecessary intelligence agents.”
In response, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow will form a list of responses. So, Russia suspends the work of the NATO military mission, recalls the accreditation of its employees, stops the activities of the North Atlantic Alliance Information Bureau in Moscow and from November 1, stops the work of its permanent representation during the Alliance.