2023-06-07 13:33:32
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The Western powers are prepared to face a possible war.
7/6/2023
Coordinated by Germany, NATO announced that it will carry out the largest air maneuver exercise in its history, US and German officials announced this Wednesday, June 7.
The exercise Air Defender 23 It will take place over 10 days starting on Monday, June 12, and some 220 military aircraft from 25 NATO member and partner countries will participate.
“I would be very surprised if any world leader did not take note of what this shows in terms of the spirit of this alliance, what the strength of this alliance means, and that includes Mr. (Vladimir) Putin,” the Russian president added. .
The exercise will include operational and tactical training, mainly in Germany, but also in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia.
“This exercise is intended to complement the permanent US presence in Europe and provide training on a larger scale than is typically done on the continent,” he stated.
The exercises will be of such magnitude that the German authorities have already alerted passengers on commercial planes that air traffic in Germany will be affected by these maneuvers, which might cause flight delays.
Created at the start of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has become the world’s leading joint defense military organization, with 31 member countries in Europe and North America.
In recent days, NATO had to put its air force on alert in response to the “dangerous” behavior of a Russian plane that the day before approached a Polish plane while on patrol in the Black Sea for the border protection agency. Frontex of the European Union.
“Air Police detachments have been placed on alert in response to the dangerous behavior of a Russian military aircraft. in the vicinity of a Polish Frontex plane over the Black Sea, near Romania,” a spokesman for that agency told Europa Press.
The Let L-410 aircraft was patrolling international airspace in the Romanian deployment region when it was approached by a Russian Sukhoi Su-35, the Polish border protection agency said yesterday.
The diplomatic representative confirmed the mobilization of Romanian and Spanish air forces, although it did not specify the type of aircraft that responded to the incident.
With information from AFP and Europa Press
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