Foreign Ministry called NATO's arguments for strengthening in Eastern Europe nonsense

MOSCOW, Feb 16 NATO's arguments for strengthening in Eastern Europe, including for deployment military groups in Romania are nonsense, Russia does not attack anyone, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO was considering deploying military groups in Romania in the Black Sea region. «The militarization of the Black Sea region is a long-standing idea NATO, the alliance intends to turn this truly peaceful region of cooperation into an exclusively arena for geopolitical battles, rivalry… As always, the North Atlantic bloc justifies the military buildup with the mythological Russian threat.As far as I understand, this hysteria of recent weeks is also connected with this, they say that the alleged presence of Russian forces near the Ukrainian border is forcing the alliance to defend itself. This is the most impossible nonsense,» she said at a briefing NATO does not threaten wounds, it is not going to attack them, as well as not only them, but also other countries. We are pursuing a peaceful policy, we are in favor of maintaining peace, peace is one of the main values ​​for our country, especially on the territory of our country,» she stressed. .jpg» />Yesterday, 12:53 NATO sees no de-escalation around Ukraine, Stoltenberg said