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Show of force Russia / 90 thousand NATO forces in the largest exercise since the Cold War

2024-01-27 18:15:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA HENRY RIDGWELL
Show of force Russia / 90 thousand NATO forces in the largest exercise since the
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NATO has begun the largest military exercise since the Cold War. Thousands of military forces are expected to move across Europe in the coming months to demonstrate strength in the face of the threat from Russia.

Nearly two years after Russia's attack on Ukraine, the conflict has turned into a war of slow degradation of the adversary's capabilities, and NATO is adapting to the threat from Russia.

This week the alliance started the "Steadfast Defender '24" exercise. These are the largest military maneuvers since the Cold War. Over the coming months, around 90,000 military forces will take part in maneuvers across Europe, as they did in Romania in 2023. Fifty warships, eighty warplanes and over a thousand ground vehicles will take part in the operations.

"We do all of this to ensure that we have the readiness, preparation and forces to eliminate any possibility of miscalculation or misunderstanding by Moscow, regarding our readiness to defend every centimeter of NATO territory," said the secretary of General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg.

The logistical challenge of moving soldiers and equipment is a vital part of the exercise.

"So how will they be sent there? And how will they be shipped quickly? As the war in Ukraine has shown that if we are slow, a part of the territory can be occupied and will have to be retaken", says Liana Fix, from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Sweden, which hopes to become a member of the alliance in the coming months, will also participate.

This is NATO's biggest exercise since the "Reforger" exercise of the 80s.

But while NATO flexes its muscles, its ally Ukraine is running short on ammunition, while aid packages from the United States and the European Union continue to be blocked by political disputes.

"Ukraine's point of view is that it is protecting NATO. And this is a valid logic if we follow the rationale that Ukraine is actually harming Russia's military, that it has reduced Russia's military, and that it is thus reducing Russia's military vulnerability to NATO. So from the Ukrainian point of view, it must be a moment of solitude, while watching the holding of the NATO exercise," says Mrs. Fix.

NATO signed this week a contract for the production of 22,000 artillery shells to supplement the stockpiles of member countries, which were sent to Ukraine. However, it will take two to three years to receive these new ammunitions./ VOA


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