NATO admitted that they began planning their expansion near the borders of Russia "several years ago"

He said this following the meeting of the NATO Chiefs of Staff, which was broadcast online by the press service of the alliance.

“We discussed the most extensive restructuring of our military structures since 1949.

Planning for this began several years ago, now we are putting these plans into practice, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

It is noted that we are talking about the deployment of brigade-level combat groups in the countries bordering Russia.

Earlier, the editor-in-chief of The American Conservative (TAC), Patrick Buchanan, said that NATO's eastward expansion led to an escalation of the situation in Ukraine.