NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday urged the Kremlin to comply with rules on transparency as it gears up for huge military exercisesalong the alliance’s eastern flank next month.
The drill, named Zapad 2017 (“West”), has stoked fresh alarm in NATO-members Poland and the Baltic states as a more assertive Russia pushes back against what it sees as the alliance’s unjustified expansion into eastern Europe.
