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NATO military activity along Russian borders reaches Cold War levels — Moscow’s envoy

TASS · · 215 words
NATO Aggression European Hostility Cold War Parallelism

Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky stated that NATO military activities near Russia's borders have returned to Cold War levels. He claimed that European elites are exhibiting 'Russophobic frenzy' and alleged that Ukraine is planning sabotage attacks from Latvian territory.

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6 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“NATO countries have brought their military activities along Russia’s borders to levels not seen since the Cold War”
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The provided evidence describes NATO's general purpose and the concept of a 'Second Cold War', but does not contain specific data or reports confirming that military activities along Russian borders have reached levels 'not seen since the Cold War'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between the NATO military alliance and the Russian Federation were established in 1991 within the framework of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Russia–NATO co-operation grew during th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–NATO_relations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The terms Second Cold War, Cold War II, and New Cold War have been used by scholars and journalists to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century post–Cold War era, usually between …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Cold_War
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“Dmitry Polyansky is the Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE)”
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Multiple independent sources, including TASS and other web results, confirm that Dmitry Polyansky was appointed by President Putin as the permanent representative to the OSCE.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 Easter truce proposal (Russian: Предлагаемое Пасхальное Перемирие; Ukrainian: Запропоноване Великоднє Перемир’я) was a proposed ceasefire between Russian and Ukrainian forces during Russian i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russo-Ukrainian_Easter_tr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky (24 November 1919 – 21 December 2003) was ambassador of the Soviet Union to Japan and China and was the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations (from 1976 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Troyanovsky
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian census identified that there were more than 5,864,000 Ukrainians and Ukrainian citizens living in Russia in 2015, representing over 4.01% of the total population of the Russian Federation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Russia
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“Kiev was actively working out scenarios of sabotage attacks on Russia from Latvia’s territory”
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Russian intelligence claims that Ukraine is plotting attacks from Latvia, but this is explicitly denied by the Latvian President and other sources, who characterize the claims as 'scare tactics'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In March and May 2026, several Ukrainian or suspected Ukrainian military drones entered the airspace of NATO member states in the Baltic region, including the Baltic states and Finland, after crossing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ukrainian_drone_incursion…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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“the Baltic nations and Poland allowed Ukraine to use their airspace to carry out drone strikes on targets in Russia”
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Moscow accuses the Baltic states and Poland of allowing Ukraine to use their airspace for strikes, but these claims are 'forcefully pushed back' by the Baltic countries, Poland, and Kyiv.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In March and May 2026, several Ukrainian or suspected Ukrainian military drones entered the airspace of NATO member states in the Baltic region, including the Baltic states and Finland, after crossing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ukrainian_drone_incursion…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The borders of Poland are 3,511 km (2,182 mi) or 3,582 km (2,226 mi) long. The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_Poland
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the Russo-Ukrainian war, particularly since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022, the airspaces of non-combatant neighbouring countries, NATO members and e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violations_of_non-combatant_ai…
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“the Narrow Waters 26-1 exercise has recently kicked off in the Gulf of Finland near Russia’s territorial waters”
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Two independent web sources confirm the 'Narrow Waters 26-1' naval exercises in the Gulf of Finland, scheduled for May 18 to 29, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Pl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico
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“Cold Response, NATO’s largest winter drills that concluded in the northern coastal waters of Norway and Finland on March 19”
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The provided evidence for this claim only contains general information about NATO and does not mention 'Cold Response' exercises or a conclusion date of March 19.
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web search NEUTRAL — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [a] is an intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states —30 in Europe and two in North America. Founded in the aftermath of World War II, N…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
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web search NEUTRAL — May 22, 2026 · NATO is a defensive alliance of 32 countries from Europe and North America. Its mission is to defend its member countries and their one billion citizens.
https://www.nato.int/en
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · NATO is a military alliance that, at its establishment in 1949, sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. It was reconc…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/North-Atlantic-Treaty-Organ…
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