Rose Gottemoeller, NATO's former deputy secretary general, recently told Newsweek that the Baltic Sea could turn into a 'NATO lake.'
Russian defense ministry sources toldthat the force would include motorized rifle brigades, regiments and divisions trained for combat operations in Arctic conditions.
When it was founded in 2010, Russia's Western Military District amalgamated the Moscow and Leningrad military districts with the Kaliningrad Special Region, although units and formations in the Arctic remained part of the Northern Fleet.
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