In the final months of 2017, the most significant advance in Russia’s relationship with Latin America was arguably the inclusion of eight Latin American teams in the 32-team field for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russia was almost absent from media coverage of the BRICS+ summit in Xiamen in September 2017 and Vladimir Putin’s address to the APEC summit in Da Nang, Vietnam in November did not even mention Latin America. In contrast to high-profile Russian political and military initiatives in Latin America in 2008 and 2013–2014, its engagement with the region in 2017 has been uneven.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-engagement-latin-america-update
The U.S. military is making sure it's prepared to face threats in Europe.
http://www.newsweek.com/counter-russia-threat-us-military-spend-200-million-europe-airbases-751907
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3501267
http://www.ng.ru/armies/2017-12-19/100_corvet191217.html
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2017/12/19/5a37b0ed9a79473d41df7bfe
https://www.gazeta.ru/business/2017/12/18/11494772.shtml
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3501415
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5A37A7829C22F
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3500982
http://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2017/12/18/1669363.html