The Telegraph, April 9th, 2022

Exclusive: Full-scale Nato military force to defend borders

NATO is drawing up plans to deploy a permanent full-scale military force on its border…the alliance’s secretary general has revealed.

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Setting out plans for the “reset” of NATO, Mr Stoltenberg pointed out that it now already had 40,000 troops under its direct command in the eastern part of the alliance – nearly 10 times the number it had a few months before the invasion

NATO announces large-scale, permanent force along Russian border