(TRUNEWS) NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said late Thursday that NATO will be increasing its presence in Eastern Europe due to the security threat posed by Russia.
“We have already increased our presence in the East (of Europe), with the assurance measures; with more planes in the air; with more boots on the ground; with more ships in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea… we’ve been also establishing this small headquarters and we have more exercises taking place in the East,” Stoltenberg said during his annual report in Brussels.
The measures Stoltenberg referenced have already been implemented in Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states.
Stoltenberg stressed that he did not believe this signified a move by NATO back to ‘Cold War posturing’, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers were stationed along the border with Russia to protect Europe from invasion. He did note however that the troop escalation was necessary to “increase in the ability of our [NATO] forces to deploy.”
In response, the chairman of Russia’s State Duma International Affairs Committee Alexey Pushkov said, that “flirting with anti-Russian governments like that of [Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko and [Prime Minister Arseniy] Yatsenyuk neutralizes any positive message that NATO can send to the Russian people,” ending by saying that the “Russian people don’t trust NATO.”
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