2 minutes agoNATO to Start Largest Military Exercise in Decades
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(2 years ago)NATO will launch its largest military exercise in decades next week, with about 90,000 personnel deployed to participate in months of training. He aims to show that the alliance can protect all its territory up to NATO's border with Russia, officials said. [...]
NATO will launch its largest military exercise in decades next week, with about 90,000 personnel deployed to participate in months of training.
It aims to show that the alliance can protect its entire territory by the NATO border with Russia, top officials said Thursday.
The exercises come in the midst of a deadlock in the war in Ukraine, with winter weather conditions freezing the battlefields, and fears that Russia threatens NATO's eastern arm.
NATO itself is not directly involved in the conflict, besides Kiev's provision of non-lethal support. However, many member states send weapons and ammunition individually or in groups to Kiev, plus provide military training for its troops.
Recent secret plans suggest the German government envisions a future gathering of Russian troops in Belarus and in the enclave of Kaliningrad, Russia's westernst territory, putting pressure on Poland's border.
Experts told Euronews earlier that Russian forces could potentially remove Baltic from Poland via Hendek Suwałki, which has long been viewed as a NATO weakness.
In the months before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, NATO began strengthening security on its eastern side with Russia and Ukraine. It's the greatest alliance creation Since the Cold War.
