NATO deployments in Europe
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NATO is putting forces on standby and reinforcing its eastern flank with more ships and fighter jets as tensions escalate over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine
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NATO members*
Main NATO deployments 
NATO air policing missions

Russian troops in Belarus for military drills starting Feb 10

Estimated 100,000 Russian troops on Ukrainian border

Russia to hold live-fire drills off Irish coast in early Feb

Russian Black Sea fleet

RUSSIA
Moscow 
Kiev
UKRAINE

ATLANTIC OCEAN

500km 300 miles

*Includes U.S., Canada and Iceland 

Crimea – occupied by Russia

Held by pro-Russian separatists
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1 Baltic States and Poland About 4,000 NATO troops in multinational battalions, backed by tanks, air defences and intelligence and surveillance units. NATO naval force of up to six ships currently on patrol in Baltic Sea

2 Romania, Bulgaria: Up to 4,000 NATO troops in Romania. France has offered to send more. U.S. also has soldiers stationed in both countries

3 France: In command of NATO “spearhead force” – contingent of at least 5,000 troops can be operational within 72 hours
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U.S. troops: 74,000 – many of these can be deployed on behalf of NATO
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4 Germany: 36,000
5 Italy: 12,000
6 UK: 9,000
7 Poland: 4,500 (on rotation)
8 Spain: 3,000 
9 Turkey: 1,600
10 Balkans: Some 3,500 troops in Kosovo as part of NATO’s KFOR peacekeeping force
11 Mediterranean: NATO Sea Guardian mission in Eastern Med. U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman joining other NATO ships for naval exercises until Feb 4
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Sources: Associated Press, NATO, Reuters
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