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Russia continues to view NATO as its primary security threat, with the Kremlin accusing Western nations of actively preparing for war by supplying Ukraine with long-range weapons and increasing military budgets. NATO leaders have pledged to raise defence spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, while Germany has expanded its defence budget to around $114bn and Spain and Norway have increased theirs by nearly 50%. Finland has lifted its decades-old ban on nuclear weapons deployment, and Lithuania is considering following suit — developments Moscow says fundamentally alter regional security.
Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova reports from Moscow, Russia.
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