Russian ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushko addresses a news conference after the NATO-Russia Council at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 13, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia will respond to NATO boosting its military presence in eastern members nearby its borders such as Poland and the Baltic states, Moscow's ambassador to the Western military alliance said on Thursday.
NATO's eastern states asked for additional security guarantees after Moscow annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and went on to back militias fighting Kiev's troops in the east of the former Soviet state.
