The Kremlin warned Thursday that NATO and Russia have “slipped to the level of direct confrontation.”
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the declaration after Sweden became the latest country to officially join the military alliance last month.
“We do not see an imminent threat to NATO territory,” US ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith told reporters on Tuesday.
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