![]() Russia once held sway in eastern Europe as the Soviet-era overlord. Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed the alliance would deploy “batallion-sized” multinational units on a rotational basis in the east.Īndrei Kelin, a department head at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said the proposed NATO deployment was a source of concern for Moscow. reconnaissance planes in recent weeks and made simulated attack passes near a U.S. ![]() Sweden, not a member of NATO, announced that it would send Ukraine 5,000 antitank. Russia has scrambled jets to intercept U.S. Refugees from Ukraine arriving at the Polish village of Medyka last week. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Monday NATO was weighing up rotating four battalions of troops through eastern member states amid rising tension in the Baltic. While Moscow accuses the Western alliance of threatening its Russia’s security, NATO says intensified military drills and its plans for increased deployments on its eastern flank are purely defensive after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and backed separatist rebels in Ukraine. Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2015. As Russian troops continue to mass around Ukraine, the United States and many of its NATO allies have begun deploying combat troops, warships, and aircraft to Eastern Europe to reassure anxious member states bordering Ukraine and Belarus.
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