NATO bolsters its eastern flank
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NATO has 40,000 troops under its direct command in eastern Europe, around 10 times the number before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

NATO members
Multinational battlegroups 
Number of NATO troops*
Mar 2022 Feb 2022 
Missile defence systems
(Aegis Ashore)
U.S. Patriot missiles

SWEDEN
LATVIA 1,700 1,650
FINLAND
ESTONIA 2,000 1,146
LITHUANIA 4,000 1,103
POLAND 10,500 1,058
HUNGARY 800
ROMANIA 3,300
BELARUS Minsk
BULGARIA 900
TURKEY
BALTIC SEA
GERMANY
RUSSIA
Moscow
SLOVAKIA 2,100
UKRAINE
BLACK SEA
MOLDOVA

Kyiv 
Deveselu
Odesa
Adazi 
Rukla
Tapa
Donbas region
Kharkiv
Mariupol
Redzikowo 
RUS. 
Orzysz

Crimea
Annexed by Russia in 2014


200km 125 miles

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*Figures do not add up to 40,000 as cyber, space and air/naval not included
Sources: NATO, Financial Times © GRAPHIC NEWS