Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at the ministry’s board meeting that threats to the country’s military security from the west and northwest have increased many times over. Transmits words telegraph channel Ministry of Defense.
According to the head of the ministry, the increased threat to the military security of the Russian Federation is connected with Finland’s entry into NATO.
“A serious destabilizing factor is the entry of Finland and, in the future, Sweden, into NATO,” Shoigu said.
He emphasized that after the inclusion of Finland in the North Atlantic Alliance, the land border of the Russian Federation with the states of the military-political bloc almost doubled.
The minister also said, “About 360,000 soldiers, 8,000 armored vehicles, 6,000 artillery systems and mortars and 650 aircraft have been deployed in the immediate vicinity of the State of the Union borders.
“The number of extraterritorial state formations of the North Atlantic bloc has increased 2.5 times since February last year and exceeded 30 thousand people,” said the head of the Ministry of Defense.
before Shoigu aforementionedThere is the possibility of a NATO contingent and weapons deployment in Finland capable of hitting critical targets in the northwestern regions of the Russian Federation.
formerly Finland it happened It became an official member of NATO in April.
Source: Gazeta
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