NATO plan to reinforce Eastern Europe

NATO is considering ways to bolster its eastern flank with troops deployed at short notice to eight existing battlegroups, and the option of scaling up to brigade-size in the face of threats


NATO BATTLEGROUPS	Troop numbers (Mar 2022)	NATO members

1 ESTONIA
2,000
UK-led with Denmark and France

2 LATVIA
1,700
Canada-led with eight other contributors

3 LITHUANIA
4,000
Germany-led with six other contributors

4 POLAND
10,500
U.S.-led with Croatia, Romania and UK

5 SLOVAKIA
2,100
Czech-led with Germany and Netherlands

6 HUNGARY
800
Hungary-led with Croatia and U.S.

7 ROMANIA
3,300
French-led with Belgium, Poland, Portugal and U.S.

8 BULGARIA
900
Italy-led with Albania, Bulgaria, UK and U.S.


NORWAY 
DENMARK
GERMANY
ITALY
Mediterranean Sea
Baltic Sea
GREECE
BELARUS
UKRAINE
Crimea
Black Sea
TURKEY
RUSSIA 
Moscow
Donbas region
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
500km 310 miles


Sources: Bloomberg, NATO, Reuters
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