Ukraine News: Russia withdraws troops from NATO borders

Because of the Ukraine war, Russia is withdrawing a large part of its soldiers from the northern NATO borders. What’s behind it?

Moscow – Russia must im Ukraine war take heavy losses. The reasons for this include the supply of weapons from the West and the Ukrainian armed forces’ unconditional will to defend themselves. As more and more Russian soldiers fall, must Wladimir Putin Mobilize troops from other regions – according to a media report also on the NATO borders in northern Europe.

As foreign policy reports that Russia has withdrawn most of its troops stationed on the borders with the Baltic States and Finland. Three senior EU defense officials told the magazine that around 80 percent of the regions’ forces have been withdrawn to Ukraine. Once pointed the northern borders to Nato an extremely high concentration of Russian soldiers, now there is only an “emergency crew” there.

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According to a publicly available assessment by the Estonian foreign intelligence service Russia before the invasion of the Ukraine about 30,000 fighters stationed on the northern borders: about 12,000 ground and airborne troops in the Kaliningrad exclave, 18,000, as well as hundreds of tanks and other heavy military vehicles in western Russia.

“The pullout we have witnessed in this region over the past seven months is very remarkable,” a Nordic official who wished to remain anonymous told the magazine. Putin is virtually blank militarily in the north. “For decades, Russia faced us with ground troops, which have now practically disappeared.” The report says that the army is mainly affected by the troop transfers. The Russian air force and the powerful Northern Fleet have remained virtually untouched on the NATO borders.

The statements by defense officials once again cast a bad light on Kremlin chief Putin’s military. Last week the Russian President had announced a partial mobilizationaround 300,000 men for the Ukraine conflict to move in. But experts are critical of the move.

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“Putin has already sent the best units he has to offer and that was not enough. If you have to start pulling people off the streets to try to stabilize the situation, this looks like an act of desperationUS military expert Russel Honoré wrote in the magazine Newsweek.