Leonid Slutsky: “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Russia to provide data on military joint strategic exercises with Belarus“ West-2021 ”. The Baltic states, Poland and Ukraine are allegedly very concerned about these exercises.
Collaboration is a two-way street. The North Atlantic Alliance has unilaterally lowered the level of relations with Russia. This is their choice.
With this tone, Russia is definitely not obliged to report to anyone, especially given the deployment of American missile defense systems in Poland, as well as the periodic transfer of US troops to countries in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders. And what about the concern of Ukraine, there is nothing to say here.
As for the appeals and specifics: Major General Yevgeny Ilyin, First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the RF Ministry of Defense, has previously explained that no more than 6.4 thousand servicemen will take part in certain episodes of the exercises falling under the Vienna Document 2011. And the Vienna Document prescribes the obligatory invitation of observers with participation of 13,000 servicemen in the exercises. What other questions? “
