NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that he does not yet see a direct threat of Russian aggression against any of the Alliance's states.

"We see no direct or immediate threat to any NATO ally. Of course, we are closely monitoring what Russia is doing. We have increased our vigilance, our presence in the eastern part of the alliance, but the idea behind this is to prevent any attack on the allies," Stoltenberg said.

According to him, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, "it was obvious to NATO that we had two tasks: one was to support Ukraine."

"NATO Allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine, and I am sure that they will continue to do so. The other task, of course, is to prevent this war from escalating into a full-scale war between Russia and NATO. We have done that by deploying more combat-ready troops to the eastern part of the Alliance, by further increasing our defense investments, and by doing more exercises," the Alliance Secretary General said, adding that a major exercise will begin this week that "will be the largest exercise in decades for NATO."