This has not happened since the second World War: Putin sent 340,000 troops to meet the newly arrived troops NATO

Russian President Vladimir Putin on the western border of his country, where NATO has amassed power, has deployed additional personnel carriers, combat vehicles, planes, helicopters and drones. Is expected to send tens of thousands of soldiers as well as ballistic missiles

Now the western Russian border has about 1,500 personnel carriers and combat vehicles. All these military technique has been modernized. In addition, the Air Force has intensified and helicopters "Mi-28" and "Mi-35". Also sent to the planes "Su-35" and the drones flying at a height of up to 6.5 kilometers - Blast Russian media.

They added that analysts predict that Moscow on the western border of Russia to send more troops.I expect that Russia sent additional troops to its western border. There is about 340,000 soldiers, and I assume that Putin will send tens of thousands of them.Also, I believe that ballistic missiles "Iskander M", which are in Kaliningrad temporarily transferred in October, remain there until further notice. At the same time I think it will be more of these missiles to be sent in the Kaliningrad region - says Martin Macaulay, a professor at the University of London.

Moscow supplying US military techniques and equipment seen as a direct military threat, the biggest after the Cold War.Although currently no one fits the war in Europe, we should not forget that conflicts sometimes starting for the slightest mistakes. With NATO and US military troops in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics, the Russian army in the immediate vicinity, there is a real chance that the slightest mistake is a war - says Macaulay.

NATO since 2014 massing troops in eastern Europe near the border with Russia.The last military contingent was delivered over the weekend. Then the United States to Germany, delivered 87 tanks "Abrams", 20 pieces of self-propelled artillery, 136 combat vehicles "Bradley", hundreds of logistics trucks, transporters and "Hummer", as well as 4,000 soldiers.

All equipment and soldiers will be deployed by Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.

• 14 Jan, 2017
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