Russia says it will not allow NATO dominance in Baltic Sea

A senior Russian official has said that Moscow will counter any moves by Western military alliance NATO to dominate the Baltic Sea. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the Russian television channel Rossiya-24 on Friday that the Western alliance's decision to increase patrols around the Baltic was further proof of NATO's "desire to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake." "This will not happen for many reasons, and one of the main reasons is, of course, that the Russian Federation will