Expanded US-NATO military presence in Poland won’t boost EU security – Russian envoy

Increasing the foreign military presence in Poland – particularly that of the US and NATO – will bolster neither Warsaw’s security nor that of Europe as a whole, Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev has said. “Even more so that NATO countries far exceed Russia in both military spending and accumulated military potential, including that of Europe,” the ambassador told TASS in an interview published on Wednesday. NATO member states stage military drills “on our western borders and the borders of Belarus, our ally, far more often than we hold exercises in the west of our country,” he noted. “It’s not Russia, but NATO that refuses to hold talks involving military specialists on measures to prevent potentially dangerous incidents,” the envoy added.