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Belgium: Putin slams Nato alliance for ‘trying to provoke Russia’

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin hit back at Nato’s sabre-rattling yesterday and accused the alliance of “constantly trying to drag us into a confrontation.”

Addressing senior officers of the FSB intelligence service in Brussels Mr Putin said the threat from Nato had only increased in recent years.

He attacked Nato’s “newly declared official mission to deter Russia,” saying: “They are constantly provoking us, trying to drag us into a confrontation.”

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