One rotational battalion of NATO in Poland will be enough to “deter” potential “Russian invasion”, said the Polish defense Minister Anthony Macierewicz. Poland, which is preparing to host a key meeting of NATO, maintains a relatively low requests – posting of one battalion of the Alliance within its borders on a rotational basis. These forces will be enough to “deter Russian aggression”, said in an interview with Defense News defense Minister Anthony Macierewicz, quoted “Inotv”.
The defense Minister of Poland stressed that the exact number of placed troops in the country and the place of their dislocation is still under discussion. Meanwhile, the newspaper notes, the number of battalions in the US army is usually from 300 to 800 people.
NATO plans to deploy four battalions along its Eastern borders in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. In response, Russia announced the creation of three new divisions, each of which included about 10 thousand soldiers, to embed along its European borders.
Macarevich, acknowledged that if Russia “invaded” Poland, then allied units will not be able to cope with such numerical superiority. At the same time, he made it clear that the main goal is not to stop the advance, and slow it down. As a result, the Alliance will be able to buy time to organize a counterattack.
“From a military point of view the problem is that while we are almost one hundred percent sure that in case of aggression of NATO will lose the attacked territory, and later it will have to win,” said the Minister. However, he added, due to rotational forces it will be possible to maintain and defend the territory long enough for the allies gathered strength and retaliated.
As stated earlier, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the situation between Russia and NATO back in the days of the cold war.
On 30 may, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said that, in his opinion, the Alliance manages to keep Russia from “aggression”.
The head of Russian foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov has stated that policy on the “containment” of Russia, it’s time to give up and shelve the story. He said that the NATO leadership and a number of European countries inflates the myth of “Russian threat”.
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