“We discussed the upcoming NATO summit, the security situation in the region, and Russia's unacceptable military build-up.

I expressed our continued political and practical support and approval for the reform process, ”Stoltenberg wrote on his Twitter.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the flight time of NATO missiles to Moscow in the event of Ukraine joining the alliance would be reduced from 15 to 7-10 minutes.

Sergei Tsekov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, in an interview with RT, commented on Putin's words about the possible deployment of NATO missiles in Ukraine.