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France had already offered to lead such a formation in Romania, according to the secretary-general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur military commanders will now work on the details and report back within weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The considerations are part of a package of measures meant to strengthen the alliance\u2019s deterrence posture toward Russia, which has 100,000-plus forces positioned around Ukraine. Leaders in Moscow have insisted the troop movements constitute training, but European and U.S. officials believe the real objective is to have substantial forces assembled to pounce on a pretext for a Ukrainian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stoltenberg said there has not been a final decision to create new battlegroups in the style of those already positioned in the Baltic nations, which number roughly 1,500 troops each. \u201cWe\u2019ll make that based on advice from military commanders. And of course, it will not necessarily be exactly the same as the battlegroups we have in the Baltic countries, but it\u2019s based on some of the same concept, multinational forces, NATO in the East.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Stoltenberg said NATO intelligence services had yet to detect Russian forces drawing down from their positions around Ukraine. \u201cThe intelligence we are sharing is actually confirmed also with open sources, with the satellite imagery from commercial satellites,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cSo I think it\u2019s very hard to dispute that Russia has amassed well over 100,000 troops and a lot of heavy equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last month singled out Romania and Bulgaria \u2014 alliance members since 2004 \u2014 as two nations where Moscow wants to see NATO de-emphasize its military posture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That demand comes as Russian leaders make references to the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act, which President Vladimir Putin brought up again at a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written at a time when post-Cold War cooperation between the major geopolitical blocs seemed within reach, the document ties both sides to a laundry list of transparency measures to ensure peace in Europe. On troop deployments, it stipulates that NATO would \u201ccarry out its collective defense and other missions by ensuring the necessary interoperability, integration, and capability for reinforcement rather than by additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, Russia would \u201cexercise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/02\/11\/ukraine-joins-baltic-nations-in-osce-query-of-russian-troop-movements\/\">similar restraint<\/a> in its conventional force deployments in Europe,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow\u2019s continued references to the kind of NATO that existed 25 years ago points to a \u201cbasic desire\u201d for security guarantees that harken back to a different time, said Christian M\u00f6lling of the Berlin-based German Council on Foreign Relations. \u201cIt\u2019s essentially a smokescreen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European and U.S. officials have rejected the suggestion that democratic Eastern European nations should submit themselves to a Russian sphere of influence around its borders, an idea running like a thread through recent proclamations from Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNATO is a defensive alliance,\u201d Stoltenberg repeatedly said Wednesday. \u201cNATO is not a threat to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur military commanders will now work on the details and report back within weeks,\u201d alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":82268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,8,23,93,25],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3314],"class_list":["post-40977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-flashpoints","category-home","category-middle-column","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"BJBMQ6SBSNDQZKOHP327FCC2HM","arc_canonical_url":"\/global\/europe\/2022\/02\/16\/nato-considering-new-battlegroups-in-eastern-europe-to-deter-russia\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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