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Nato
general warns about Moldova, Baltics
23.03.14
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BRUSSELS -
Nato’s top general, Philip Breedlove, has warned that Russia has amassed enough
troops on the eastern Ukrainian border for a new invasion and said Nato will
mobilise troops to defend the Baltics if need be.
"The
force that is now at the Ukrainian border - to the east - is very, very sizeable
and very, very ready. You cannot defend against that if you are not there to
defend against it. So I think we need to think about our allies, the positioning
of our forces in the alliance and the readiness of the forces so we can be there
to defend against it if required, especially in the Baltics," he said on Sunday
(23 March) at the Brussels Forum, an event organised by the German Marshall
Fund, a think tank.
He
noted that Russia could no longer be trusted to respect national borders when it
carries out military exercises.
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"We
saw several snap exercises executed in which large formations of forces were
brought to readiness and exercised and then they stood down. And then as we have
all seen, a snap exercise with large formations brought into readiness and boom,
into Crimea, they went, with a highly prepared force," Breedlove
said.
He
also warned the current number of troops amassed along the eastern Ukrainian
border may pose a threat for Moldova and its separatist region of Transniestria,
which last week requested to be incorporated into Russia on the Crimean
model.
"There
is absolutely sufficient force postured on the eastern border of Ukraine to run
to Transnistria if the decision was made to do that and that's very worrisome,”
he said
"When
we talk about threat in the military, we marry capability with intent. We know
the capability absolutely exists to do that and cause that problem. We see some
of the same rhetoric used before going into Crimea so if that's the first
indication of intent, that's very worrisome," he added.
What
Nato states may consider doing is to move troops and hold war games closer to
Russia, the general indicated.
He
noted that the military alliance already moved fighter jets from Italy and the
UK to Poland and the Baltic states and moved some of its warships into the Black
Sea.
Breedlove
said Nato has been trying to partner with Russia, but Moscow is now "behaving
like an adversary."
His
last contact with his Russian counterpart, general Valery Gerasimov, was on the
day after the invasion of Crimea began.
"I
will try to maintain that line of communication, we will insist from each other
truth in what we speak. Sometimes we don't see truth in the same way," he
said.
In
Moscow, deputy defence minister Anatoly Antonov said Russia is in compliance
with international law on troop limits and said international inspectors had
conducted missions in the last month to check on Russian troop
movements.
"We
have nothing to hide there," Antonov was quoted by state news agencies as
saying.
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