Defender-Europe 20 is the largest U.S. deployment to Europe in more than 25 years, but NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insists that it 'is not directed against any particular country.'
Moscow's top diplomat has warned his government would take responsive measures to an upcoming, massive U.S. military deployment and U.S.-led exercises across multiple European states bordering Russia.in an interview Monday that"naturally, we will react" to the NATO Western military alliance's Defender-Europe 20 exercise, which is due next month to begin facilitating the largest U.S. military deployment to Europe in 25 years.
"Those who provoke this kind of absolutely unjustified doctrine want a response in order to continue to escalate tensions," he added."But it's worth noting that everything that we do in response to the threats created by NATO members to our security we do exclusively on our own territory. Just like all our nuclear weapons are on our territory, unlike American nuclear weapons.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted Monday that"Defender Europe is not directed against any particular country," according to an article by Agence France-Presse and Japan's Jiji Press featured inand shared by NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu."Russia has every right to feel secure within its borders, but so do our member states.
Both NATO and Russia have bolstered their flanks in response to growing tensions surrounding Ukraine in 2014, when Russian annexed the Crimean Peninsula in a disputed referendum and was accused by the U.S. and its allies of funding an eastern cross-border insurgency there.
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