CSTO: NATO increases number of forces on Eastern Flank by 2.5 times

Head of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Anatoly Sidorov has said that the West is aggravating the situation in the zone of CSTO responsibility.

The number of NATO forces on the Eastern Flank has increased by 2.5 times up to 33,000 people since February 2022, of which 15,000 are the US military, Sidorov said told reporters on February 14, Kommersant reports.

“Unfortunately, the situation in the CSTO zone of responsibility is characterised as difficult and tense. The main source of challenges and threats to military security is the destructive activity of some Western elites to aggravate the situation around the organisation and in its individual member states,” he added.