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Moscow will not permit NATO infrastructure near Russia’s borders

Russia will by no means permit the deployment of NATO infrastructures in the territories of neighboring countries, the chief Russian delegate at the military security and arms control talks in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov said on the YouTube channel Solovyov Live on Tuesday.

“I believe, yes. Or there will follow a very different response,” he said, when asked, if Russia was determined to prevent the deployment of NATO’s infrastructure near its borders.

Gavrilov recalled that NATO regularly held military exercises near Russian borders and its planes made reconnaissance flies over the Black and Baltic seas.

“The so-called rotation in fact means permanent presence of military units, while we are urged to pull back our forces as far as the Urals,” he said.

On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry released drafts of a treaty between Russia and the United States on security guarantees and of an agreement on measures to guarantee the security of Russia and NATO member-states. The drafts were handed to the US side at a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on December 15.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Russia was ready to retaliate in various ways, including military and military-technical measures, if NATO ignored Moscow’s concerns again.

As Putin stressed, Russia “has the full right” to measures intended to ensure its security and sovereignty

Russia is ready to take military-technical measures, if NATO expands close to its borders, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a Defense Ministry enlarged board meeting on Tuesday.

“In case of clearly aggressive policy continued by Western colleagues, we will take adequate military-technical measures and respond toughly to unfriendly steps,” the Russian president warned.

As Putin stressed, Russia “has the full right” to measures intended to ensure its security and sovereignty.

As the Russian president emphasized, Moscow does not demand any special exclusive terms for itself. “Russia stands for equal and indivisible security in the entire Eurasian space,” Putin said.

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