Ukraine is not adequate for Russia. "Preparing to conflict with NATO"

In the Russian town of Petrozavodsk, located about 160 km east of the border with Finland, Moscow is expanding military bases. It's in them. Russia plans to make a fresh office for its army, which in the next fewer years "will oversee tens of thousands of soldiers".

Russia. They are expanding forces at the border with Europe. "Preparing for a possible attack on NATO"

According to Western military and intelligence officials, “these (Russian – ed.) soldiers, many of whom are presently serving at the front in Ukraine, to form the core of the Russian army preparing to face NATO‘.

As we read, Moscow constantly increases the production of weapons, recruits for the military, and besides modernizes railway lines in areas bordering countries belonging to the North Atlantic Alliance. Russia has already increased defence spending to over 6% of GDP, and Vladimir Putin has ordered an army increase to 1.5 million soldiers.

In expert opinion, In this way, the Kremlin is preparing for a "potential conflict with NATO". In consequence to Russia's movements, Finland, which avoided any confrontation with the neighbouring country, begins to strengthen its border.

"In 2021, before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia produced around 40 of its T-90M tanks, according to estimates by Western intelligence services. Now it produces almost 300 each year“ Wall Street Journal, ” she says.

A high-ranking Finnish military believes that almost no of these machines go to the front in Ukraine, but stays in Russia and waits for later use.

Moscow takes on an army, builds fresh bases. They can test North Atlantic Alliance unity.

– The Russian army is reconstructing and increasing faster than most analysts predicted. – said General Christopher Cavali, commander of the American forces in Europe. At the same time, he estimated that the Russian military, despite the losses suffered in the war, is now larger than at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

‘Russia can start a large-scale war in Europe in 5 years if it considers NATO weak“ – indicated in a study published in February by Danish intelligence. Western officials inform that a ceasefire in Ukraine would let Moscow to prepare for the attack even more quickly.

One European intelligence officer mentioned that to "test the unity of the North Atlantic Alliance", The Kremlin could hit a tiny country like EstoniaThat many Russians live in.

– fresh infrastructure (military bases – ed.), which is being built, includes retention units and quarters for soldiers," said Emil Kastehelmi of the Finnish Black Bird group, who analyses satellite images of Russian military facilities. Moreover, the U.S. paper indicates that "a fresh railway line arises along the borders with Finland and Norway and south of Petersburg to the border with Estonia".

The publication besides mentions that Russia adjusts his plans to re-arm the army"to meet the needs of fresh troops that will be stationed along the NATO border". It's these units that most of the fresh equipment that's going to be delivered are not observed on the front in Ukraine – there the Russians benefit mostly from renewed weapons from russian times.

Source: "The Wall Street Journal"