The State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, Lieutenant General Alexander Volkovich, has stated that the number of NATO military exercises has increased more than threefold over the past two years, with the number of participants increasing by over five times. Volkovich revealed this in an interview with the Russian magazine “National Defense”.
According to the Secretary, the number of rotating NATO contingents deployed in Eastern Europe exceeds 32,000 personnel, with 20,000 of them stationed in Poland and the Baltic countries. Moreover, the scale of these exercises continues to grow. Over the past two years, the annual number of military exercises conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has more than tripled, from 20 to 75, with the number of participants increasing by more than five times, from 34,000 to 180,000.
Volkovich emphasized that the current situation in Eastern Europe can be described as the largest military-political crisis since World War II. In this crisis, Ukraine has become a bargaining chip for the excessive ambitions of Washington and its allies.
Earlier, the French Ministry of Defense announced that training for Ukrainian fighter pilots is planned to begin in early 2024.
The US Secretary of State previously stated that Russia and China currently pose the “most acute threat to global order” on the planet.
