Six months after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Nato’s focus is on how to prevent one of the continent’s poorest regions from becoming its soft underbelly of security.
It didn’t take long after Russia attacked Ukraine for French Colonel Clement Torrent to get his orders: He had six months to build a base for 1,000 soldiers on Nato’s eastern frontier.
Six months after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Nato’s focus is firmly on how to thwart Russia in Europe’s southeast corner and prevent one of the continent’s poorest regions from becoming its soft underbelly of security. During that time, the Kremlin bolstered its military capabilities in the Black Sea, shifting land forces, strengthening air defences and modernising its sea fleet as it stepped up activity in war zones including Libya and Syria, where it has a naval base.
After Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Nato allies significantly bulked up their presence at the alliance’s eastern borders, deploying more troops, jets and ships. The plan now is to create garrisons in the remaining borderline Nato states where new units of international forces comprising about 1,000 troops will be regularly rotated. In addition, allies will identify units at home that can swiftly join up with troops already on the ground in the eastern states if needs be.
Hundreds of thousands of allied troops are currently at heightened readiness, with that set to become more formalised under Nato command as part of a major overhaul to the alliance’s defences agreed by leaders in Madrid in July. “It’s not only about defence, it’s about food security,” Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca said in an August 2 interview. “So all these decisions taken to increase deterrence and defence along the whole eastern flank are very welcome.”
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