Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO Jens) Stoltenberg said that the Western alliance has deployed about 140,000 troops in Europe.
"We have already begun to implement plans to defend the alliance, increase our readiness and deploy soldiers on both sides of the Atlantic," Stoltenberg said.
He added that the NATO member-states have hundreds of thousands of soldiers on high alert.
Stoltenberg went on to say that American soldiers are deployed in Europe, and there are about 40,000 additional soldiers under direct NATO command, mainly in the eastern part of the alliance. They are backed by large air and naval forces as well as air defense systems."
On the other hand, Russian armed forces have continued, since February 24, to carry out a special military operation in the southeastern part of Ukraine.
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