Russia Deploying 3 New divisions To Counter NATO Buildup At Its Border
by Carol Adl
YourNewsWire.com
May 4, 2016
Russia is to deploy three new military divisions, two in the west and one in the south to counterbalance NATO’s increased military presence near its borders.
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Wednesday: “The Defense Ministry is taking a number of measures to respond to the NATO military buildup at the Russian border” adding that two new divisions would be formed in the Western Military District and one in the Southern Military District before the end of the year.
Shoigu also said that Russia was ramping up military training as well as the production of advanced military hardware to respond to the NATO threat.
Russia Today reports:
Earlier there were reports in the Russian media that three new divisions with 10,000 troops each may be deployed in Rostov-on-Don, the Smolensk Region and the Voronezh Region.
NATO has been sending additional forces to Poland, the Baltic States and elsewhere near Russian borders since 2014. It claimed that the deployments were necessary to build confidence of Eastern European members in the face of “Russian aggression.”
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