NATO weighs new combat units
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NATO is planning to establish four new multinational battlegroups – totalling 4,000 troops – in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia, in response to Russia’s military build-up in Ukraine
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ESTONIA
1,150 troops Lead nation: UK

LATVIA 1,650 troops 

LITHUANIA 1,100 troops Germany

Canada
BALTIC SEA
Redzikowo* RUS. Malbork
Amari
Tapa Adazi
GERMANY

UKRAINE Kyiv 
MOLDOVA Donbas Controlled by pro-Russian separatists

ROMANIA France has offered to lead new battlegroup in Romania

Deveselu

BULGARIA Craiova: NATO’s multinational brigade 4,000 troops

200km 125 miles
BLACK SEA

Crimea  Annexed by Russia in 2014

TURKEY
Lask
Lielvarde
POLAND 1,060 troops U.S.
SLOVAKIA
HUNGARY
Orzysz
Siauliai
Rukla BELARUS

Moscow
RUSSIA +130,000 Russian troops deployed near Ukrainian border

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NATO battlegroups
Existing Planned
NATO air policing mission
NATO’s missile defence system (Aegis Ashore)
NATO members
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Some 80,000 U.S. troops stationed across Europe. 8,500 additional troops on “high alert” to deploy to help NATO Response Force of 40,000 troops 

Very High Readiness Joint Task Force: Core unit of NRF. French-led force of 5,000 soldiers, operational within 72 hrs

*Under construction
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Sources: NATO, Rochan Consulting, Reuters   © GRAPHIC NEWS