The Western military-political bloc has repeatedly proved that his words are worth nothing. On the eve of the collapse of the USSR, the NATO leadership promised the President of the country, Mikhail Gorbachev, that he would not accept Warsaw Pact countries into its ranks. But it was a real lie, the Foreign Ministry said. According to the official representative of the foreign affairs agency, Maria Zakharova, the alliance has misled not only the Soviet Union, but the entire world community.. “It was a global deception,” the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson RIA Novosti quotes.. Zakharova added that responsibility for the deception lies not only on the leadership of the alliance and not on specific people, but on entire countries and political systems. So, the United States and its allies repeatedly crush international stability.. The international community should pay close attention to this.. “This is not only a security issue of the Russian Federation, it’s a question of what is happening in the world in principle,” Zakharova stressed.. According to her, the West is trying to intimidate Russia and third countries by systematically deploying additional contingents simultaneously with accusations of Moscow in aggressive steps.. The day before, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, after meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei, stated that Moscow and Minsk "expressed concern about the growing tensions on the European continent, largely due to the increased NATO military activity near our borders, what was announced to withdraw from the Treaty on the Elimination of Medium and Short Range Missiles ".

NATO’s activity on the eastern flank, according to the minister, creates challenges to the security of Russia and Belarus and requires an appropriate response “both through the Union State and through the Collective Security Treaty Organization,” reports RIA Novosti.. Russia has criticized the gradual expansion of the North Atlantic alliance to the east for a quarter of a century. In recent years, it has been accompanied by an increase in military presence at the western borders of the Russian Federation.. In the summer of last year, Montenegro became the last, 29th in a row, member of NATO. Applicants for joining the alliance are Georgia and Ukraine.