MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Friday branded the expansion of NATO as a fundamental threat to Russia in a revised military doctrine that dramatically reflects deteriorating relations with the West.
The new document, approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, decries the "reinforcement of NATO´s offensive capacities directly on Russia´s borders, and measures taken to deploy a global anti-missile defence system" in Central Europe.
NATO was already seen a major threat in an earlier version of the doctrine published in 2010, but the war in Ukraine has further raised tensions to levels not seen since the Cold War.
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