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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Friday dismissed warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that allowing Kyiv to use Western weapons for strikes inside Russian territory might lead to an escalation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that NATO allowing Ukraine to use longer-range missiles to strike inside his country would be seen by Moscow as the bloc’s direct entry into the war.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and NATO are now in "direct confrontation", the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO's successive waves of eastern ...
Starting in 2021, Russian units that were originally intended to defend against a NATO invasion had been withdrawn from actual land borders with NATO in order to support an expected invasion of Ukraine. [12] Russia significantly increased its military presence along its border with Ukraine, massing about 100,000 troops by December. [13]
Nato general secretary Mark Rutte has warned that the West is “not ready” to deal with the threat of war from Vladimir Putin’s Russia.. His warning has come amid concerns over the future ...
Relations between the NATO military alliance and the Russian Federation were established in 1991 within the framework of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.In 1994, Russia joined the Partnership for Peace program, and on 27 May 1997, the NATO–Russia Founding Act (NRFA) was signed at the 1997 Paris NATO Summit in France, enabling the creation of the NATO–Russia Permanent Joint Council ...
NATO and Russia had co-operated until Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. [19] Ukraine had been a non-aligned country when Russia occupied Crimea and invaded the Donbas in 2014. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In response, Ukraine's parliament voted to end its non-aligned status [ 22 ] and to include the goal of NATO membership in the Constitution . [ 23 ]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's defence minister said on Monday that Moscow must be ready to fight the NATO military alliance in Europe in the next decade, as President Vladimir Putin said he believed ...