Shoigu called Finland’s entry into NATO and Sweden’s future entry a “serious destabilizing factor
Russia will deploy forces on its western border after Finland joins the US-led NATO alliance, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told the ministry’s board on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
At the commencement of the remarks to the College of the Ministry of Defence, Shoigu said that Poland, a member of NATO, has already announced plans to strengthen its military and that it expects significant NATO forces and weapons to be deployed in Finland, whose accession has almost double NATO’s land border along Russia.
The collective West is waging a proxy war against Russia,” he said, according to his ministry, noting its “unprecedented support” for Ukraine in providing tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to help Kiev repel Russian forces.
Shoigu called Finland’s entry into NATO and Sweden’s future entry a “serious destabilizing factor”. The two Nordic states abandoned generations of neutrality maintained throughout the Cold War to pursue NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early last year.
“On Finnish soil, it is possible to deploy additional NATO military units and strike weapons, capable of striking critical targets in the northwest of Russia at considerable depth,” Shoigu said.
“Today, at the meeting of the Board, we will consider issues related to the creation of the Leningrad and Moscow military districts with the simultaneous reinforcement of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on our western border.”
He said that Poland had announced its intention to build the most powerful military on the continent and that it had become “the main instrument of the anti-Russian policy of the United States of America”.
Shoigu said that the number of NATO military units except of the area parked in eastern Europe has increased by two and a half times since February last year and that now is a total of 30,000.
“These threats to Russia’s military security require a timely and adequate response. We will discuss the necessary measures to neutralize them in the meeting and take appropriate decisions,” he said.
Source :Skai
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