NATO Maneuvers in Black Sea Show Alliance's Longing to Step Up Military Tensions in Region

ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) - Military presence of NATO member states in the vicinity of Russia's Crimea is deliberate and provocative and aimed at ratcheting up military tensions in a broader geopolitical context of NATO expansion in Eastern Europe, Ludo De Brabander, the spokesman for the Belgian Vrede peace movement, told Sputnik on Thursday.