NATO is concerned about the inability to quickly transfer troops to the border with Russia

Problems with the transfer of troops in Europe are solved by NATO not fast enough, said the head of the NATO International Military Headquarters, Lieutenant General Jan Brooks. “These issues are not resolved quickly enough. Of course, there is always an element of how quickly funding appears, brigades are being formed, roads are being built. This is a very big job, but we must be ambitious, ”he told the Defense News.



The possible need to transfer troops to the eastern borders is viewed by NATO as a critical aspect of work since 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea, the newspaper notes. There are logistic and legal issues. From the point of view of logistics, it is necessary to determine the roads that can withstand heavy equipment, increase the carrying capacity of the ports and repair the railway tracks. Legal aspects include the need to request permits from individual countries to cross land borders and airspace.
In late October, the Kommersant correspondent visited the NATO exercises in Norway. A thousand kilometers from the Russian border, Finnish, Danish, French, and British soldiers landed on the Norwegian coast in order to fight back an imaginary aggressor. At the same time, the alliance assures that the largest NATO exercises since the end of the Cold War against Russia are not aimed.