Reuters: “Andrei Kelin, a department head at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said the proposed NATO deployment was a source of concern for Moscow. Russia once held sway in eastern Europe as the Soviet-era overlord.
“This would be a very dangerous build-up of armed forces pretty close to our borders,” Kelin told the Interfax news agency. “I am afraid this would require certain retaliatory measures, which the Russian Defence Ministry is already talking about.”
