For the first time since the Cold War, NATO will prepare a defense plan in case of a conflict with the Russian FederationMOSCOW, May 18/
Radio Sputnik. At the July NATO summit in Vilnius, the members of the North Atlantic Alliance plan to approve "thousands of pages of secret military plans," according to a Reuters article. [...]
It is noted that for the first time since the Cold War, the documents will describe in detail what the reaction of the bloc countries will be in the event of a conflict with Russia.
Reuters drew attention to the fact that for decades the alliance did not see the need to develop a large-scale defense plan, since NATO participated only in small-scale regional conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East.
The leadership of the bloc was confident that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia did not pose an "existential threat." However, the Ukrainian crisis forced NATO to think about a defense plan, the agency writes.
In classified documents, as during the Cold War, certain types of troops will be assigned to the defense of certain regions.
Finland's recent entry into the bloc has led to the doubling of NATO's border with Russia to 2,500 kilometers, which forces a more flexible approach to the deployment of troops than before, when Germany was considered a possible conflict zone.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on the air of her author's program on Sputnik radio, commented on Ukraine's entry into the NATO cyber center.