Russia Sends More Troops West, Challenging U.S.-NATO Presence Near Borders

Russia has announced the deployment of more personnel to its western region, signaling a new challenge to the increasingly active U.S.-led NATO military alliance forces operating there.

The Western Military District press service said Friday that the Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Brigade was deployed to Moscow's Novomoskovsky Administrative District, joining the Guards Red Banner Tank Army "to perform tasks on ensuring the defense of the Russian Federation in the Western strategic direction," according to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.

The motorized rifle units are equipped with "more modern weapons and specialized vehicles," including the T-90A tanks, BTR-82A armored carriers, BMP-3 combat vehicles, and 9A34 Strela-10 and 2S6M Tunguska air defense systems, the Russian military said.

The moves came just days after Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff slammed "anti-Russian" activities conducted by the U.S. and allied states of the 29-member NATO defense pact near his country's borders. The largest deployment of U.S. troops in a quarter-century was scaled down due to novel coronavirus concerns in March, but the U.S. still stepped up its presence through other maneuvers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-sends-more-troops-west-challenging-us-nato-presence-near-borders/ar-BB156dgJ?li=BBnb7Kz

Interestingly Trump wants to pull our troops out of Germany.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213550370