The U.S. military in Poland and the Baltic States will remain there in 2015 because of the danger from Russia, said in Vilnius, the head of the European command of the American army Lieutenant General Frederick Hodges.
" The U.S. will be here in Lithuania, and similarly in Estonia, Latvia and Poland until then, as long as you want to deter Russian aggression, " said Hodges, RIA " news " referring to AFP. According to Hodges, the Russian Federation currently " trying to bully " their neighbors military exercises and frequent " airspace infringements "." Discipline and unity of Nations is extremely important at the moment, that little incident did not lead to something that may not have happened, " said Lieutenant-General. Since April this year in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania stationed 600 U.S. Marines. The Baltic States and Poland have previously expressed wishes that the us military Were deployed in the area on a permanent basis. The US told me that advocate the need for more frequent military exercises with the Baltic States, but do not intend to place in the field of the permanent population. In connection With the situation around Ukraine, NATO has adopted a number of measures that the Alliance explains the need to provide security of the participating countries. Were strengthened mission air patrol Baltic countries (in Alliance With 2004), the aircraft With radar equipment make regular flights over Poland (joined in 1999) and Romania (joined in 2004)introduced additional NATO ships in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. In addition, the Alliance said about the increase in the constant presence of staff, program expansion exercises, strengthening early warning systems. Russia has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict and absolutely not involved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine: no intelligence agents, troops there. Thus, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century stated that the grounds for accusations of Russia in the complication of the situation in the South and South-East of Ukraine and the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation many times reported that not supplying the militia military equipment, ammunition and does not provide other assistance. First Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna said that the European Union States must now prepare for possible new sanctions against Russia, if Moscow will be in Eastern Ukraine new aggression ". However, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin, taking in the environment credentials of new Ambassador of Poland in the Russian Federation Catherine Pelczynski-Nalecz, said that Russia and Poland it is necessary to raise the relationship to the next level and work on the basis of mutual respect and pragmatism.


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