MOSCOW, Dec 27 - RIA Novosti. The expansion of NATO's military infrastructure in the eastern direction has had a negative impact on the security architecture of the entire European continent, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said.
"It is obvious that the strengthening of NATO has not gone unnoticed for the security of Europe," Fomin said at a briefing for military attaches and representatives of embassies of foreign states accredited in Moscow on Monday.
He gave such a chronology of events, as a result of which, among other things, security in Europe was weakening.
At the same time, he noted, Western partners continued to assure the Russian Federation "in the absence of aggressive intentions against Russia."
"In fairness, it should be noted that Moscow believed these statements, although they froze cooperation with NATO in 1999 in connection with the military solution to the crisis in Yugoslavia," Fomin said.
