Advanced group response Force will consist of ground crews in 5 thousand people, sea, and air components and special Forces, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defence Ministers.
according to him, the Leading group of the NATO response Force will be deployed for eight hours, reports a news Agency. NATO adopted a conclusion about how to deploy six command centers in Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria for rapid response Forces of the Commonwealth, the Secretary General said. The overall composition of the NATO response Force will be shown with three teams. Before it was announced that the number of the NATO response Force will grow from 13 to 30 thousand People, and a group of high alert in their composition will consist of 5 thousand Military. First Thursday Stoltenberg said that the Alliance proceeds " to the most significant expansion of its military capabilities since the end of the cold war. At the same time the commander of the combined military might of NATO in the European Union, commander of U.S. forces in the European Union General Philip Breedlove said that the multinational corps northeast, located in the Polish city of Szczecin, if necessary, will be able to direct the activities of the rapid response Force NATO. After the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine, the head of the Ministry of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu announced an "unprecedented" increase in the activity of the military might of the USA and NATO in Eastern Europe the Russian borders.


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