Russia says dialogue with Nato at ‘zero’ but it doesn’t seek open conflict
foreign ministers meet on Thursday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their alliance, having agreed to start planning for a greater role in co-ordinating military aid to
Nato began with 12 members from North America and Europe, founded in response to growing fears that the Soviet Union posed a military threat to European democracies.Israeli army withdraws from major Gaza hospital, leaving behind a wasteland “Democratic nations, free people chose to join unlike how Russia expands by annexation or illegal aggression,” Finnish foreign minister Elina Valtonen told reporters.
Under a proposal by Mr Stoltenberg, Nato would take over work done by a US-led ad hoc coalition known as the Ramstein group, in part to guard against any cut in US support ifMr Stoltenberg has also proposed a fund of €100 billion to support Ukraine’s military over five years, say diplomats.
Mr Grushko told Russian state news agency RIA that relations were “predictably and deliberately” deteriorating, and all channels of dialogue between Moscow and the alliance had been brought to a “critical zero” level by Washington and Brussels.
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