NATO Threatens Russia With ‘Consequences’

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg © Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / via REUTERS  

RT: NATO threatens Russia with ‘consequences’  

The head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, has hit Russia with a stark warning against exerting force on neighboring Ukraine amid a series of unsubstantiated Western-driven claims that Moscow is massing its troops at their shared border. 

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday in Lithuania to discuss the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the EU’s frontier with Belarus, the US-led bloc’s secretary general took the opportunity to call on the Kremlin “to be transparent, reduce tensions, and de-escalate” the situation on the demarcation line with Ukraine.  

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Update: Meeting near Russian border, NATO weighs response to Moscow's military maneuvers (DW)  

WNU Editor: Moscow’s top diplomat in Washington Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has given the Russian response .... Russia warns it won't back down in NATO standoff (RT). Here is more from the Russian Ambassador .... US dangerously misguided in believing Russia won’t respond to NATO threat — ambassador (TASS).

Update #2: All is not doom and gloom .... Chances exist for better Russia-NATO relations, says Russian senior diplomat (TASS).