NATO’s four battlegroups in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have been operating for more than five years. Led by Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, they remain combat-ready, demonstrate the strength of the Transatlantic bond between Europe and North America, and make clear that an attack on one Ally would be considered an attack on all.
In 2017, NATO created these four multinational battalion-size battlegroups in response to Russia’s illegal attempted annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014.
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Allies reinforced the existing battlegroups and established four more multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
With eight total multinational battlegroups, this has effectively doubled the number of troops on the ground and extended NATO’s forward presence along the Alliance’s eastern flank – from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
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