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NATO’s parliamentary assembly urged alliance members yesterday to increase defence spending for a new arms race with with Russia.
A summit in Albania’s capital Tirana voted unanimously “to provide reassurance to those allies who feel their security is under threat, focusing on the eastern and southern flanks of the alliance.”
Assembly president Michael Turner, a US Republican congressman, claimed: “The challenge from Russia is real and serious.”
In Ukraine, the latest target for Nato expansion, the Kiev coup regime claimed that shelling by anti-fascist Donbass forces had killed five of its troops.
But elsewhere cracks showed in the alliance’s front against Moscow.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus expressed hope for an improvement in relations with Russia, which were wrecked by Turkey’s shooting-down of a Russian jet over Syria in November.
And Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker would meet President Vladimir Putin during a visit to St Petersburg in June.
