Russians are coming 
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BRUSSELS: Alarmed by the speed and scale of Russia's intervention in Syria, Western military officials said on Thursday that they were stepping up military exercises and deploying a small number of logistics personnel in Eastern and Central Europe.
Britain announced that it would send soldiers to the Baltic countries after the show of force by Russian president Vladimir V Putin.Germany condemned Russia's operations in Syria in unusually pointed terms.Nato expressed alarm about Russia's incursions into Tur kish airspace, and the widening of the field of conflict to include the firing of cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea.
"We are implementing the biggest reinforcement of our collective defence since the end of the Cold War," Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said before the alliance's defence ministers -including the US defence se cretary Ashton B Carter -met in Brussels to consider their response to Russia's moves. The forceful rhetoric was another sign of the West's dismay over Russia's aerial bombings in Syria and its support for a ground offensive there, which appeared to be an effort involving Iran, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, and the pro-government army , which is loyal to Syria's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad.Putin insists that Russia's intervention is intended to tar get militants from the Islamic State, but Western officials say he is using that pretext to batter other insurgent groups that have been trying to overthrow Assad.
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Eye on Russia, Europe builds defences - The Times of India
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BRUSSELS: Alarmed by the speed and scale of Russia's intervention in Syria, Western military officials said on Thursday that they were stepping up military exercises and deploying a small number of logistics personnel in Eastern and Central Europe.
Britain announced that it would send soldiers to the Baltic countries after the show of force by Russian president Vladimir V Putin.Germany condemned Russia's operations in Syria in unusually pointed terms.Nato expressed alarm about Russia's incursions into Tur kish airspace, and the widening of the field of conflict to include the firing of cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea.
"We are implementing the biggest reinforcement of our collective defence since the end of the Cold War," Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said before the alliance's defence ministers -including the US defence se cretary Ashton B Carter -met in Brussels to consider their response to Russia's moves. The forceful rhetoric was another sign of the West's dismay over Russia's aerial bombings in Syria and its support for a ground offensive there, which appeared to be an effort involving Iran, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, and the pro-government army , which is loyal to Syria's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad.Putin insists that Russia's intervention is intended to tar get militants from the Islamic State, but Western officials say he is using that pretext to batter other insurgent groups that have been trying to overthrow Assad.
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Eye on Russia, Europe builds defences - The Times of India
