Russia to send 20 new military forces to border in furious retaliation against NATO
RUSSIA is set to send 20 newly formed military units to its western border in a furious retaliation against what it has perceived as aggression from NATO.
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Vladimir Putin’s repressive regime has been enraged by the growing number of flights by US strategic bombers near Russia's borders. Deployments of Nato warships and increasingly frequent and large-scale military drills by members of the alliance near its border have also annoyed the Kremlin.
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Defence minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that such actions “destroy the international security system and force us to take the relevant countermeasures”.
He announced at a meeting with top brass this week that Russia’s army will “form another 20 units and formations in the Western Military District until the year's end”.
The units in Western Russia have commissioned about 2,000 new pieces of weaponry this year, he added.
The outburst came amid rising tensions between Russia and the West - mainly over its actions in The Ukraine.
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Mr Putin sparked international condemnation when he annexed the Crimea in 2014 before Russian-backed separatists began battling Ukranian government forces.
The two sides have been in an uneasy stalemate since which threatened to return to a full blown war earlier this year.
The Russian president was accused of stoking tensions after he sent up to 100,000 soldiers as well as thousands of tanks and other military hardware to the country’s eastern border.
This prompted US president Joe Biden to dispatch American warships to the Black Sea - inflaming tensions further.
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