NATO is setting up military preparations around Russia warns Moscow

Moscow 4 Jan (EFE) .- The armament of NATO in east European countries and the Baltic, on the border with Russia, is taking the form of military preparations against Moscow, warned the Russian ambassador to the alliance, Aleksandr Grushko in an interview published on Monday by "Interfax".
"NATO returned to the policy of containing Russia, the clash of instruments to ensure their safety. All this takes the form of concrete military preparations around the borders of Russia and invest in this trend will be even complicated if there is political will," lamented Grushko .

The Atlantic Alliance, stressed the Russian diplomat, returned to put "the armor of the Cold War and has no intention to take it."

"What we are attempting is to raise a new Iron Curtain in Europe, forcing European security schemes of the era of confrontation and breaking demonstrate that the Alliance is able to defend their interests," Grushko repressed.

Russia, however, bet on "a common security architecture, based on the indivisibility of security," said the Russian ambassador to NATO, which was confident that "sooner or later in Brussels take this consciousness."

"Nowadays no one can create security islets. Cooperation in the Iranian nuclear problem, the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, the increasingly stronger cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State demonstrate the safety of attempts to isolate Russia" He concluded.

The United States confirmed in June plans to temporarily deploy tanks, armored vehicles and artillery in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Relations between Russia and NATO have deteriorated in recent years and reached an unprecedented level since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, first by US plans to deploy a missile shield in eastern Europe and then the Ukraine crisis.

The Atlantic Alliance notably strengthened its military presence from the Russian annexation of the Crimea and the pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine.

NATO also opened six new general-barracks in eastern Europe, the general secretary of the organization, Jens Stoltenberg, described as the largest rearmament plan NATO since the Cold War.

These barracks, which serve as centers of planning and coordination for training missions of rapid response, were opened in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, the countries most concerned with the Russian interference in Ukraine.