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'We will respond with all necessary measures': Russia issues chilling warning to America days after its fighter jets buzzed US Navy warship on NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea just 70 miles from Kaliningrad
PUBLISHED: 16:07 GMT, 20 April 2016 | UPDATED: 06:16 GMT, 21 April 2016
Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of intimidation by sailing a US naval destroyer close to Russia's border in the Baltics and warned that the Russian military would respond with 'all necessary measures' to any future incidents.
Speaking after a meeting between NATO envoys and Russia, their first in almost two years, Moscow's ambassador to NATO said the April 11 maritime incident showed there could be no improvement in ties until the US-led alliance withdrew from Russia's borders.
'This is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia,' the envoy, Alexander Grushko, said.
'We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force.'
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Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of intimidation by sailing a US naval destroyer close to Russia's border in the Baltics. Above two Russian planes fly over USS Donald Cook April 12 in the Baltic Sea
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Russia Moscow's ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushkos (above) said the maritime incident showed there could be no improvement in ties until the US-led alliance withdrew from Russia's borders
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Grushkos said: 'This is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia. We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force'
US Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute pressed Russia about the incident, warning it had been dangerous.
The United States has said the guided missile destroyer USS Cook was on routine business near Poland when it was harassed by Russian jets.
'We were in international waters,' a NATO diplomat reported Lute as telling Grushko during the NATO-Russia council meeting.
Last week Secretary of State John Kerry said the Navy ship could have opened fire on the Russian military jets that buzzed around it.
Kerry made the statement in remarks to CNN Espanol in Miami and condemned Russia's actions.
He said that 'under the rules of engagement (it) could have been a shoot-down'.
Despite what officials said was a calm and professional meeting, the public comments highlighted the state of tension that persists between the sides since Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in March 2014 and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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The United States has said the guided missile destroyer USS Cook was on routine business near Poland when it was harassed by Russian jets. Above a Russian helicopter flies low near USS Cook in the Baltic Sea April 12
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A NATO diplomat reported US Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute telling Grushko during the NATO-Russia council meeting that 'We were in international waters.' Above a Russian aircraft flies near the USS Cook
'We have to use our lines of communication,' he said.
Russia's chief concern is NATO's biggest modernization since the Cold War, which is likely to include a military build-up in eastern Europe with a rotating, multinational force in Poland and the Baltics.
NATO says the plans are a proportionate response to Russian aggression following Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and the alliance had no forces in eastern Europe before the Ukraine crisis.
Poland and other NATO members in the Baltics worry about an increase in the Russian military presence in its Kaliningrad enclave, where Russia is positioning longer-range surface-to-air missiles.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (above) suggested revamping a Cold War-era treaty known as the Vienna document
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The Vienna document sets out the rules for large-scale exercises and other military activity, as well as telephone hotlines and other military communication channels. Stoltenberg said: 'We have to use our lines of communication'
The session of the NATO-Russia Council, which last met in June 2014, had been called in part to assuage Russia's concerns that it feels threatened by NATO. But core differences clearly remained afterwards.
NATO envoys had expressed concern about Russia's so-called snap exercises, where thousands of Russian troops carry out war games without any prior warning. 'That is clearly destabilizing,' a NATO diplomat said.
Stoltenberg said NATO members had rejected Grushko's description of the crisis in eastern Ukraine as a civil war.
'In the meeting, it was re-confirmed that we disagree on the facts, on the narrative and the responsibilities in and around Ukraine,' Stoltenberg said after the meeting.
'Many allies disagree when Russia tries to portray this as a civil war.
This is Russia destabilizing eastern Ukraine, providing support for the separatists, munitions, funding, equipment and also command and control,' he said.
'So there were profound disagreements,' he said.
Russia denies any direct involvement in eastern Ukraine.
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The USS Cook was 70 miles (marked by dotted line) from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Its exact location has not been released
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nt-NATO-tensions-laid-bare.html#ixzz46RttGYYV
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- Russian SU-24 attack planes made numerous close-range passes by the guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook last week
- The US has said USS Cook was on routine business near Poland in the Baltic Sea when it was harassed by Russian jets
- Russia has now accused the US of intimidation for sailing it near them
- Moscow's ambassador to NATO said the April 11 incident showed there could be no improvement in ties until US withdrew from Russia's borders
- Alexander Grushko said: 'We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force'
- See more news on the Russian military at www.dailymail.co.uk/russia
PUBLISHED: 16:07 GMT, 20 April 2016 | UPDATED: 06:16 GMT, 21 April 2016
Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of intimidation by sailing a US naval destroyer close to Russia's border in the Baltics and warned that the Russian military would respond with 'all necessary measures' to any future incidents.
Speaking after a meeting between NATO envoys and Russia, their first in almost two years, Moscow's ambassador to NATO said the April 11 maritime incident showed there could be no improvement in ties until the US-led alliance withdrew from Russia's borders.
'This is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia,' the envoy, Alexander Grushko, said.
'We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force.'
Scroll down for video
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Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of intimidation by sailing a US naval destroyer close to Russia's border in the Baltics. Above two Russian planes fly over USS Donald Cook April 12 in the Baltic Sea
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Russia Moscow's ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushkos (above) said the maritime incident showed there could be no improvement in ties until the US-led alliance withdrew from Russia's borders
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Grushkos said: 'This is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia. We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force'
US Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute pressed Russia about the incident, warning it had been dangerous.
The United States has said the guided missile destroyer USS Cook was on routine business near Poland when it was harassed by Russian jets.
'We were in international waters,' a NATO diplomat reported Lute as telling Grushko during the NATO-Russia council meeting.
Last week Secretary of State John Kerry said the Navy ship could have opened fire on the Russian military jets that buzzed around it.
Kerry made the statement in remarks to CNN Espanol in Miami and condemned Russia's actions.
He said that 'under the rules of engagement (it) could have been a shoot-down'.
Despite what officials said was a calm and professional meeting, the public comments highlighted the state of tension that persists between the sides since Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in March 2014 and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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The United States has said the guided missile destroyer USS Cook was on routine business near Poland when it was harassed by Russian jets. Above a Russian helicopter flies low near USS Cook in the Baltic Sea April 12
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A NATO diplomat reported US Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute telling Grushko during the NATO-Russia council meeting that 'We were in international waters.' Above a Russian aircraft flies near the USS Cook
'We have to use our lines of communication,' he said.
Russia's chief concern is NATO's biggest modernization since the Cold War, which is likely to include a military build-up in eastern Europe with a rotating, multinational force in Poland and the Baltics.
NATO says the plans are a proportionate response to Russian aggression following Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and the alliance had no forces in eastern Europe before the Ukraine crisis.
Poland and other NATO members in the Baltics worry about an increase in the Russian military presence in its Kaliningrad enclave, where Russia is positioning longer-range surface-to-air missiles.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (above) suggested revamping a Cold War-era treaty known as the Vienna document
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The Vienna document sets out the rules for large-scale exercises and other military activity, as well as telephone hotlines and other military communication channels. Stoltenberg said: 'We have to use our lines of communication'
The session of the NATO-Russia Council, which last met in June 2014, had been called in part to assuage Russia's concerns that it feels threatened by NATO. But core differences clearly remained afterwards.
NATO envoys had expressed concern about Russia's so-called snap exercises, where thousands of Russian troops carry out war games without any prior warning. 'That is clearly destabilizing,' a NATO diplomat said.
Stoltenberg said NATO members had rejected Grushko's description of the crisis in eastern Ukraine as a civil war.
'In the meeting, it was re-confirmed that we disagree on the facts, on the narrative and the responsibilities in and around Ukraine,' Stoltenberg said after the meeting.
'Many allies disagree when Russia tries to portray this as a civil war.
This is Russia destabilizing eastern Ukraine, providing support for the separatists, munitions, funding, equipment and also command and control,' he said.
'So there were profound disagreements,' he said.
Russia denies any direct involvement in eastern Ukraine.
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The USS Cook was 70 miles (marked by dotted line) from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Its exact location has not been released
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nt-NATO-tensions-laid-bare.html#ixzz46RttGYYV
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