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The 2.5 billion euro investment that is angering Putin, how will NATO's largest base in Europe be

2024-04-02 20:55:04Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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The 2.5 billion euro investment that is angering Putin, how will NATO's largest base in Europe be

An anchor in the sea for NATO's eastern flank. Since work began March 19 in Constanta, Romania, on the Black Sea, to expand what will become NATO's largest base in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been even angrier.

Over 2.5 billion euros, 2,800 hectares, 10,000 places for the same number of soldiers (currently there are 5,000), the base where the Mihail Kogalniceanu military airport is now located will be built. The project includes the expansion of the airport of Constanta, the main Romanian port city on the Black Sea coast, and the construction of new runways, hangars, storage areas for ammunition, fuel and maintenance and repair materials, schools, shops, accommodation spaces, pharmacies and a hospital.

This means that we will be dealing with a base 20% larger than the Ramstein base in Germany, currently the largest NATO base in Europe.

The new base in Constanta should be fully operational by 2040. Since 1999, the Mihail Kogalniceanu base has been used by US troops. Currently there are soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division and NATO fighter jets carrying out air policing missions.

Romania has long been a major hub for NATO operations in the Black Sea region. Thousands of US troops have been stationed in the country to carry out training and security missions since the beginning of the Russian occupation of Ukraine.

Nicolae Cretu, the commander of the airbase, explained to Newsweek that there will be “maintenance hangars, fuel depots, ammunition, equipment, aeronautical technical materials, simulators, fuel equipment, accommodation; everything is necessary to support the operations and missions of this air base."

NATO began building its network of four multinational battlegroups, the Enhanced Forward Presence, in the Baltic region after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. After the full-scale invasion began in February 2022, the Alliance strengthened those missions and created four additional battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

France is the framework country for the Romanian battlegroup, with Belgium, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal and the United States contributing. Bucharest is seeking closer cooperation with its NATO allies – and the United States in particular – as the Black Sea and Danube delta become a theater of increasingly tense confrontation between Ukraine and Russia, as well as between Moscow and its western rivals.

"Romania has already established itself as an anchor of the eastern flank of NATO and the EU," Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu explained to Newsweek. An anchor which, however, could anger Moscow even more, especially given that on the front of the Black Sea, the Russians are suffering heavy naval losses.


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