article_snippet.sent: Stornaway, Scotland (CNN)Huge military exercises are underway off and around Britain's coast, but NATO insists NATO are not a deliberate response to the Russian military's increasingly brazen behavior.
article_snippet.sent: NATO says the planning started long before Russia began behaving as an adversary.
article_snippet.sent: For more than a year NATO has been condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine as well as NATO frequent, large scale, snap military drills and those long-range Bear bombers repeatedly flying very close to NATO airspace.
article_snippet.sent: NATO says they only stayed a few days and didn't see anything sensitive.
highlights_snippet.sent: NATO is holding huge war games exercises off the coast of Scotland .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: NATO says planning started long before Russia renewed NATO status as the alliance's chief adversary .
  