NATO's Estonia maneuevers have anti-Russian bias - Russian military
MOSCOW. Nov 11 (Interfax-AVN) - NATO's Trident Juncture maneuevers that started in Estonia on November 9 are targeted against Russia, said chief of the Russian Defense Ministry's International Military Cooperation Department Sergei Koshelev.
"The script of the exercise provides for practicing interoperability between the commands of various level in conditions when one of the member-countries is attacked by a big hostile state. Estonia, where the exercise is being held, borders, except the Russian Federation, exclusively on 'small friendly countries,' which means that NATO's exercise has an exclusively anti-Russian bias," Koshelev told the press on Tuesday."
"The Russian Defense Ministry has taken note of the fact that unlike in similar exercises held by NATO in 2012-13, NATO has now significantly extended the list of command structures involved in the interoperability drill," he said.
NATO's Trident Juncture command-post exercise is being held near the Russian borders. It started on November 9 and will last until November 17.