NATO has mentioned it’s launching its largest train since Chilly Conflict (File)

The dimensions of NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024 workouts mark an “irrevocable return” of the alliance to Chilly Conflict schemes, Russia’s Deputy International Minister Alexander Grushko advised the state RIA information company in remarks printed on Sunday.

NATO mentioned on Thursday it was launching its largest train for the reason that Chilly Conflict involving some 90,000 troops, rehearsing how US troops might reinforce European allies in international locations bordering Russia and on the alliance’s jap flank if a battle have been to flare up with a “near-peer” adversary.

“These workouts are one other aspect of the hybrid struggle unleashed by the West towards Russia,” Grushko advised RIA.

“An train of this scale … marks the ultimate and irrevocable return of NATO to the Chilly Conflict schemes, when the navy planning course of, assets and infrastructure are being ready for confrontation with Russia.”

NATO didn’t point out Russia by title in its announcement. However its high strategic doc identifies Russia as essentially the most important and direct risk to NATO members’ safety.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 in what Kyiv and its Western allies have mentioned was an unprovoked imperialistic land seize.

Moscow, and its chief diplomat International Minister Sergei Lavrov, have since usually accused “the collective West” of conducting a “hybrid struggle” towards Russia by backing Ukraine via monetary and navy support.

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