MOSCOW, 10 Apr. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the Telegraph that the alliance is developing plans to deploy permanent full-scale armed forces near Russia, which «will be able to protect the member countries of the military bloc in the event of a military conflict. According to him, because of the Russian Special Operations in Ukraine NATO is now “in the midst of a very fundamental transformation.”
"We have now asked our military leaders to provide options for what we call a reset, a long-term adaptation of NATO.I think that the leaders of the alliance will decide on this issue when they meet in Madrid at the June summit,” Stoltenberg said.
He noted that there are already 40,000 alliance soldiers on the eastern flank of NATO, while before the start of the Russian special operation there were ten times less.
Zakharova spoke about the role of NATO in the Ukrainian crisis military operation for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» He stressed that it is planned to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. By March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.