All NATO actions concerning Russia are aimed at preserving security. This was announced by the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg. He rejected accusations that NATO's eastward advancement and the deployment of a Western military contingent and weapons directly at Russian borders could provoke a conflict with the Russian Federation. Members of the North Atlantic bloc act adequately, Stoltenberg is convinced. "NATO can not ignore Russia's actions to violate international norms and undermine our security," he said in an interview with Interfax.. "We see that Russia has become more assertive, significantly increased its military potential, is ready to use military force against its neighbors and demonstrates a lack of transparency in the military sphere," the secretary-general of Moscow's "sins". According to him, it is to these challenges that NATO is forced to react. But she does it as correctly as possible. "We have deployed 4 multinational battalions in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with a total number of 4,500. military personnel. These are proportional, defensive forces, - Stoltenberg stressed.. "They send a clear message that an attack on one of the alliance members will mean an attack on the entire alliance.

The goal of NATO is not to provoke a conflict, "the Secretary General said.. In this regard, he believes that Russia's unrest is vain: the same American Aegis missile systems in Romania and Poland will in no way "undermine Russia's strategic deterrent". "This is a defensive system that is designed to protect the alliance from limited attacks from outside the Euro-Atlantic area," Stoltenberg reassured.. On Wednesday, July 11, in Brussels, a two-day NATO summit opens, one of the issues on the agenda of which is to contain Russia.