“NATO has decided to strengthen its presence and to send a very clear signal of strategic solidarity and to deploy forces in Romania,” Borchard said in an interview with Radio France International and France 24.
“We will deploy about 500 men with armored vehicles and combat vehicles to provide support to Romania as well as to convey a message of strategic solidarity from all NATO members,” he added.
He stressed that France will also maintain, in the context of the Atlantic, its military presence in Estonia, which borders Russia, until after March, “in light of the situation that NATO is going through today, the crisis situation and the war in Ukraine.”