According to him, in recent years, the number of NATO exercises has increased, many of them are anti-Russian.
"Taking into account the general military planning of NATO, which is increasingly being sharpened to counter the so-called threat from the east, such exercises cannot but cause legitimate concern in us," Grushko quoted TASS as saying.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that Moscow is closely following the exercises and is ready to take all the necessary measures: "Including a military-technical nature in order to reliably ensure our interests."
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is aware of "and does not wear rose-colored glasses" in connection with the statements of the United States and NATO that their line on containing Russia is a constant in foreign policy.