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The German-led drill brings together 25 NATO nations with Germany's leadership. The maneouver had been in the planning since 2018. Some 10,000 soldiers and 250 aircraft, including 70 from Germany and more than 100 from the US, take part in the maneouver until June 23, Xinhua news agency reported.

He made the remarks on Thursday at a press conference after the conclusion of a two-day informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo, Norway's capital. The meeting was also attended by Sweden's foreign minister, but Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was notably absent. Stoltenberg welcomed Sweden's new anti-terrorism.

On Monday, KFOR units were trying to disperse a group of Serbs who protested after Kosovo police took control of the administrative buildings in Zvecan and two other municipalities in the Serb-majority northern region, reports Xinhua news agency.

"Our expectations from the summit in Vilnius boil down to two key priorities: fixing in one form or another the absence of alternatives to the fact that we are on the path to NATO membership, and before joining the alliance, obtaining security guarantees," Yermak was quoted as saying by the presidential press service.

NATO Plus status for India has been bandied about for years now, but without fruition. It made it quite far in one instance and cleared the House of Representatives as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which is the Defence Department's budget, but came up short. Ro Khanna, a Democratic member of the House.

As NATO is expanding in the eastern, northern and other directions, the bloc is "absorbing almost all neutral nations," Lavrov added on Wednesday during a briefing following talks with his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Aleinik, Xinhua news agency reported. The situation in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe is "deplorable".

"We will increase our defence spending to at least 2 percent of Norway's gross domestic product by 2026. We will draw up a plan setting out how we will achieve this," said the Prime Minister in a statement. His announcement follows an agreement in 2014 by all NATO member countries to meet a 2 per cent of GDP defence investment.

By the end of this year, Ukraine aims to perform between 30 per cent and 35 per cent of the alliance's standards, Reznikov was quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency as saying, Xinhua news agency reported.

Peskov said on Wednesday that when such weaponry was previously used by NATO in Yugoslavia, it resulted in devastating consequences, including a rise in oncological and other diseases, Xinhua news agency reported. Those who use this ammunition must understand that they will "cause irreparable harm to themselves and their citizens" and ultimately bear full responsibility for their actions, he added.

Earlier this week, Rosneft filed a lawsuit against the German government's extension of the trusteeship and petitioned for compensation for the financial losses it had incurred during the first six months of the order. Since the "special military operation" phase of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict broke out, Germany and its partners in the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have engaged in a de facto proxy war against Russia.