Kremlin says NATO’s military infrastructure is creeping closer to its borders, TASS reports

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Thursday it was watching as NATO’s military infrastructure moved closer towards Russia’s borders and that Moscow would need to act to contain the Western military alliance, the TASS news agency reported.

TASS cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that NATO’s goal was to suppress Russia and that the alliance’s actions represented a “serious threat” to Russian national security.

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