Lavrov: The Russian Armed Forces will deploy new weapons in response to NATO expansion. All the long decades of good neighborliness with these countries have gone to waste, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry complained.
On February 26, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that recreated the Moscow and Leningrad military districts and also established their composition. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that 18 military units will be reorganized in the Central Military District in 2024. The head of state, in his message to the Federal Assembly, announced plans to seriously strengthen the Russian Armed forces in the western direction.