“If Russia wants to divide us, it will actually get the opposite, they will get a more cohesive North Atlantic alliance,” Stoltenberg is quoted by TASS.
According to him, “if Russia wants fewer NATO forces at its borders, it will get the opposite - it will get more NATO.
In addition, the Secretary General of the alliance called on Russia to "withdraw its forces from the borders of Ukraine" and start diplomatic negotiations in order to resolve the crisis.
As reported by the German publication Der Spiegel, a 1991 document was found in the National Archives of Great Britain, in which Western countries declared the unacceptability of NATO expansion to the east.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that Russia has been talking about the non-expansion of NATO for 30 years, while the infrastructure of the alliance has already appeared at the Russian borders.