Focus: NATO’s exercises in Norway to “defend” Crimea are designed to send a signal to Putin 19:18

The magazine writes that the NATO Joint Viking exercises in Norway are intended to send a clear signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is ready to repel an attack on the alliance’s northern flank. Focus.

“This year’s military maneuvers are of particular importance: the Allies. [по НАТО] Send a clear signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” the broadcast says.

According to media reports, around 20,000 Norwegian military personnel are participating in the exercises this year. Eight more countries affiliated with the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), established in 2014, participated in the UK-led exercises. Focus reported that the Joint Viking exercise aims to simulate a possible attack on Norway, to show that the allies can “respond quickly and forcefully”. If the Russian Federation could “divide NATO,” as the author claims, the allied forces could respond.

The article clarifies that the exercises apply the scenario of attacking a country from the fictitious Merinia country, similar to the “Russian annexation of Crimea” in 2014.

Formerly at the Norwegian Ministry of Defense reportedIn 2023, the country’s Armed Forces will conduct fewer exercises than previously planned due to Russia and its special operations.



Source: Gazeta

Popular

More from author

The Kremlin commented on Putin’s possibility of a new conversation with Trump 16:57.

Currently, there is no phone call between Russian presidents and US Putin and Donald Trump. This was told by the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov...

Putin promised to visit Teremok 16:41

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to visit one of the Russian cuisine Teremok cage during the XX Business Russian Congress, where he attended the...

A second criminal case against the old title of the Bataisk Social Protection Department 16:55.

Sergei Zavgorodny, former president of the Bataisk Social Protection Department, became a defendant in another criminal case. This has been reported by the Russian...

The Ministry of Defense reported that the drone was shot over 16:52

The task of the air defense (air defense) destroyed the Ukraine unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the aircraft type on the territory of the...