Nikolai Adashkevich. The echelon of heavy military equipment in the United States on Sunday arrived in Estonian town of Valga, and From this location the Equipment will be delivered to the military base in Tapa, said the General staff of the Estonian defence Forces.

"Just a railway train 40 pieces of military equipment, including four tanks M1A2 Abrams tanks and ten armoured personnel carriers Bradley. From Valga combat vehicles will be delivered to the military base in Tapa. Technique is part of a company of the 3rd battalion combat units of the 1st armored brigade of the 2nd infantry division, which will be replaced by a unit Of the United States, which until now have served in Estonia, " - said in the report.

according to information from the Estonian military, the first day of the week to Estonia there will arrive some more pieces of different mechanisms. The unit also includes 3 self-propelled artillery Paladin, which will be delivered at the end of the second decade of November.

NATO allies at a conference in Wales in September 2014 decided on increasing the military presence on the Eastern borders of the Commonwealth on the basis of rotation. The need for this in NATO is linked to the crisis over Ukraine. At the same time Authorized NATO has stated many times that there is no permanent deployment, for this reason, obligations of the Commonwealth to Russia are not violated.

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