Blinken: NATO will increase its presence "from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea"

“We will strengthen NATO's presence from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Blinken noted that the Black Sea region is of strategic importance for the alliance.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the NATO grouping near the borders of Russia has grown 2.5 times since February and amounts to more than 30 thousand people.