If Sweden and Finland join NATO, the Russian Federation will have to build troops in the north, author Russian magazine “Military Thought” for military leaders, published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
As noted in the article, this will require Russia to “form the composition of its aerospace forces, including ground and coastal forces, missile forces and artillery, air defense and unmanned aerial vehicles, in the north direction, as well as planning long-range attacks. “Precision weapons range against objects in regions” data were obtained from Scandinavian countries.
The publication also draws attention to the fact that at this time the accession of Stockholm and Helsinki to the North Atlantic Alliance should be seen as the most urgent challenge to Moscow. This is due to the fact that, as the publication says, the length of the border of the Russian Federation with neighboring NATO member states will increase by more than a thousand kilometers, and on the territory of these countries there will be formations similar to Norway. Part of the combined armed forces can be deployed on the basis of a temporary or permanent alliance, as well as on a system for the advance storage of weapons and military equipment.
“In addition, the possible deployment of operational-tactical missile systems in Finland will threaten to damage the facilities of the military-industrial complex in the Arkhangelsk region and the transport infrastructure in the region as a whole,” the material said.
Former Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev declarationRussia will respond symmetrically to the expansion of NATO’s military infrastructure in Sweden and Finland.
After Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, Sweden and Finland expressed their willingness to join NATO, fearing a “Russian threat”. Turkey and later Hungary opposed their joining the alliance. In the future, Ankara put forward some conditions for Stockholm and Helsinki for the Turkish side to approve the membership of the organization. Among these demands was the expulsion of supporters of the terrorist “Kurdistan Workers’ Party” (PKK), especially known in Turkey.