Increasing NATO military activity in the Black Sea and increasing the number of exercises with Kyiv will not help resolve the Donbas.

Axar.az reports that the statement came from Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. She said that NATO was conducting the largest exercise in the Black Sea in the last 25 years (Defender Europe-21):

"Seven NATO exercises are planned in Ukraine in 2021, ie one military exercise every 1.5-2 months. All this does not serve the internal settlement in Ukraine."