The Kremlin announced the "creeping" movement of NATO towards Russia

"We ... even now see how the alliance is gradually beginning to absorb, invade Ukraine," he said.

According to Peskov, first NATO supplies defensive weapons, modern high-tech, then offensive, and then dual-use weapons.

Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the North Atlantic Alliance intends to continue its expansion, despite the protests of Russia.

On December 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the need to immediately begin negotiations to work out agreements that would rule out NATO's eastward expansion.

In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the deputy head of the Russian foreign policy department, Sergei Ryabkov, had conveyed Moscow's proposals on security issues to the American side.