The NATO summit in Madrid demonstrates the Alliance's aggressiveness towards Russia, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said on Wednesday 29 June, also qualifying the enlargement to Finland and Sweden as "
deeply destabilizing
".
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The Madrid summit consolidates the direction of aggressive containment of Russia by the
Atlantic bloc,” Deputy Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian agencies.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that he considered Russia to be "
a direct threat
" to the security of the Western military coalition.
NATO enlargement
US President Joe Biden has already announced that the United States will "
strengthen its military positioning in Europe
".
Westerners have decided to strengthen their military means because Russia attacked its neighbor Ukraine in February, a country which is a candidate for NATO and the European Union.
This offensive also led Finland and Sweden to ask to join NATO, memberships which must be recorded at the Madrid summit, strengthening the Alliance on the Russian borders.
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We consider the enlargement of the alliance to be deeply destabilizing for international affairs.
This does not reinforce the security of those who enlarge, nor that of those who join, nor that of those who consider the alliance as a threat
, ”said Sergei Ryabkov.
The Russian assault on Ukraine has been justified in Russia in particular by the need to push back the influence of NATO from its borders.
Today, the countries of the alliance are arming kyiv to fight the Russian army.
