3 hours agoPoland sends 400,000 troops to border
Periskopi(9 months ago)
(9 months ago)Poland has sent 40,000 troops to deploy to its eastern border, while joint military exercises of Russia and Belarus are expected to take place called “Zapad 2025”. This comes as Europe is still on high alert following the unprecedented intervention of Russian fears in Polish airspace this week, with the Polish prime minister [...]
This comes as Europe is still on high alert following the unprecedented intervention of Russian fears in Polish airspace this week, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that the West is closer to the open conflict since World War II.
He called future military exercises “very aggressive” and closed the country's border with Belarus pending “frightening “ ”.
“Polonia has been preparing for the Zapad-2025 exercises for many months”, Poland's Deputy Minister of National Defence, Caesar Tomczyk, for TV Paulsat News late Wednesday, submits Telegrafi.
“Polish and NATO soldiers are needed to respond favorably Zapad-2025”, he said, adding: “War started here in Ukraine. So the Polish army is preparing for this. In the next few days, we're going to have about 40,000 soldiers bordering”.
The Kremlin will hold its exercises “Zapad 2025” with Belarus near Poland and Lithuania from Friday to next Tuesday, September 16th.
Training takes place nearly every four years. The latter, in 2021, led to a massive gathering of forces in Belarus that was used to attack Ukraine several months later.
A former NATO official warned that this year's “exercises could serve as cover for a military gathering, with tens of thousands of troops expected to participate.
And Germany's defence chief, Carsten Breuer, said NATO would be “on alert” about the exercises, while its chief NATO, Mark Rutte, stressed that Russia is being quickly re-armed.
Rutte warned that the co-ordinated attacks by Russia to Europe and China in Asia could trigger World War III, Putin by distracting it NATO with an attack on Europe.
“Zapad” Which means “It's official protective training.
The troops are expected to prepare to repel an attack, including air attacks and sabotage, according to official reports.
But Russia is expected to potentially bring tens of thousands of troops to prove, among other things, its new nuclear-powered missile use on the European border.
Some of the exercises will be held just a few kilometers from NATO's borders. /Periscope/
