North Atlantic Alliance

"NATO will be more important in the next 75 years than it has been in the last 75," NATO's former supreme allied commander Europe (2013-2016) General Philip Breedlove tells Kathimerini.

Amid escalating global tensions, Russia has unequivocally declared its stance on nuclear weapon deployment, affirming that it has no plans to station such arms abroad, with one exception - its ally, Belarus. The announcement came from Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov, responsible for arms control, during the BRICS summit.

He pointed out that the perspectives of that organization are not clear.
"In a little more than a year, the Helsinki Final Act will be 50 years old. We regret to say that the OSCE welcomes this anniversary in a sad state, and its prospects are unclear," said Lavrov.

A model of cooperation between Greece and Israel in the field of research and development in the defense industry, based on financial instruments and innovation structures already in place on both sides, was discussed on Monday in Tel Aviv by the two countries' defense ministers, Nikos Dendias and Yoav Gallant. 

The corridor is located between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad region.
"An engineering battalion will soon be formed in Augustw. It is another military unit that we are creating from scratch, and I assure you that it will not be the last," said the minister.

Hailing a "historic day," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday evening that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed - after marathon trilateral consultations with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on the eve of the Alliance's Summit - to proceed to forward the Nordic country's accession protocol to the North Atlantic Alliance for ratification by the Turkish parl

Blinken said that this Nordic country has already taken significant steps to resolve the demands that official Ankara has made Sweden's membership in the North Atlantic Alliance conditional on, Reuters reports.

This move represents a major change in the North Atlantic Alliance since it hasn't made major defense plans for a long time - in the recent past it participated in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in the bombing of FR Yugoslavia, but it did not consider post-Soviet Russia an existential threat.

He referred to the words of the Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, who said that Ukraine will become a member of that organization as soon as possible.
"We are dealing with an aggressive bloc that encroaches on our security," said Peskov.

According to him, the goal was to seize part of the territory of Serbia, and the decision was made much earlier.
As he told Tanjug on the occasion of the anniversary of the NATO aggression, the attack of the North Atlantic Alliance aimed to get NATO a permanent base in the Balkans in order to implement the expansion strategy to the east.