NATO’s first post-Cold War arrange direct dial telephone with Russian military commanders – Ekho Moskvy radio station

It is learned the German media. For information on how communication will take place and what does it do
Both sides will receive a new “red phone”. True if the Cold War was the name of teletype communications, now it will be the telephone. And in the event of a crisis caused by the conflict in the east of Ukraine, NATO officials will be able at any time to contact directly with the Russian military command. To access negotiations with Moscow will get united in chief of NATO forces in Europe, now it is Philip Breedlove, as well as chairman of the military committee of the alliance. On the organization of a straight line writes the German edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The newspaper claims that a direct connection with Moscow set in secrecy. And the Russian side allegedly had contact numbers. Because of the crisis in Ukraine, the North Atlantic alliance last spring froze military contacts with Russia and soon began to strengthen presence in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. That is a direct link between the leaders of the alliance and the Ministry of Defense is needed at the end of last year, announced the head of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He called on to do everything to the conflict in the east of Ukraine is not aggravated and did not lead to military escalation. Information about when a straight line to start operating as secret. The Ministry of Defence posts do not comment on the German edition.
During the Cold War a direct teletype line between NATO and Moscow have used US Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. It is believed that the so-called “red phone” helped the Soviet Union and the United States to avoid nuclear war.