“We really want to return to the positions we were at some five years ago. We had rather active cooperation in Brussels (with NATO. - RT ), we had a representative there, ”the Vesti website quoted him as saying.

In addition, Shoigu recalled that Russia called on the international coalition to cooperate in Syria. But, according to him, the only thing we could agree on was to prevent incidents between Russian aviation and coalition planes.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the development of the Russian Navy said that Moscow was ready to extend the START III treaty by the end of the year.