🌐🪖📃 — 📰 Reuters (Jan 19, 2024): NATO to hold biggest drills since Cold War with 90,000 troops

➡️ NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War, rehearsing how U.S. troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance's eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a "near-peer" adversary.

➡️ Some 90,000 troops are due to join the Steadfast Defender 2024 drills that will run through May, the alliance's top commander Chris Cavoli said on Thursday.

➡️ More than 50 ships from aircraft carriers to destroyers will take part, as well as more than 80 fighter jets, helicopters and drones and at least 1,100 combat vehicles including 133 tanks and 533 infantry fighting vehicles, NATO said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-kick-off-biggest-drills-decades-with-some-90000-troops-2024-01-18/
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🇺🇸🗣🇷🇺 — 🇺🇸 Yahoo News | There is no direct threat from Russia to NATO countries, but we are vigilant – NATO Secretary General | January 23, 2024:

"On 23 January, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that he saw no direct or imminent threat from Russia to any NATO member state, though the Alliance has increased its vigilance to prevent an attack.

Source: European Pravda with reference to Stoltenberg’s statement on 23 January during the signing of agreements on the purchase of about 220,000 rounds of artillery ammunition

Quote: "...we don't see any direct or imminent threat against any NATO Ally. And therefore, we, of course, monitor closely what Russia does, we have increased our vigilance, our presence in the eastern part of the Alliance, but the whole idea of that is to prevent an attack on a NATO Ally."

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🇺🇸⚡️🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 — 🇺🇸 NATOpoRusski channel on Telegram:

"Steadfast Defender 24 will be NATO's largest exercise in decades. 90,000 troops from all NATO countries and Sweden will take part in them.

They will demonstrate transatlantic unity, strength and the ability to quickly deploy aircraft over thousands of kilometers in any conditions 💪🤝.‌‌"

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦— A similar video, shared on January 23, 2024 AD, shows another sortie conducted by Su-25 crews alongside the Russian-Ukrainian Frontline

During the video, crews of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Aerospace Forces of Russian Federation are seen hitting Ukrainian ersonnel and lightly armored vehicles in the Krasnolimansk sector of the frontline

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Video shared on january 23, 2024 AD by Pro-Ukraine observers what is claimed to be a Ukrainian AAA crew engaging with a M2 Browning .50 HMG a Russian cruise missile over the Northern Kyiv/Kiev, with a Ukrainian SAM finishing the job.

Althought seen as archaic, the use of manned Anti-Aircraft guns is now very common among Ukrainian forces in Ukraine

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