Russia creates new division to counter NATO – BBC Russian

To counter the capacity of NATO forces near Russia’s borders, two new divisions will be created in the Western Military District, and one -. In the South, according to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu

At the same time he said that the division will be created before the end of the year, and are currently being arrangement places of deployment of these compounds.

on the creation of three new divisions on the westbound Shoigu said in January. Later it became known that the new motorized rifle compound appears near Rostov-on-Don, two more – in the Smolensk and Voronezh regions

Each of the new divisions, as previously reported, will have about 10 thousand in the structure. .. people

Earlier, the NATO command reported that increase the number of its troops on the border with Russia, Poland and the Baltic countries should be sent four thousand soldiers

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