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NATO’s actions in Ukraine evidence the likelihood of a repeat scenario of the military alliance’s eastward expansion plans while claiming the opposite, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, according to TASS report. 

"Yesterday, President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin recalled our quite recent past when Russia was deceived, to put it plainly, when Russia was promised that NATO would not expand eastward but was then deceived as NATO expanded further to the east," the Russian presidential spokesman said.

"Now we see quite a similar scenario. We see the military infrastructure [of the alliance] drifting to the east, a rapid process of NATO states arming Ukraine and provocative NATO actions," Peskov pointed out.

Moscow deems NATO’s plans for its further expansion to the east as unacceptable, he said.

"A repeat scenario of the past is utterly unacceptable for us," the Russian presidential spokesman pointed out.