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Elements of the NATO Response Force were activated for the first time in NATO's history. [90] In March, NATO leaders met at Brussels for an extraordinary summit which also involved Group of Seven and European Union leaders. [91] NATO member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. [92]
NATO member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, [46] and elements of the NATO Response Force were activated for the first time in NATO's history. [51] As of June 2022, NATO had deployed 40,000 troops along its 2,500-kilometre-long (1,550 mi) Eastern flank to deter Russian aggression.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Read CNN’s NATO Fast Facts for a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
Thousands of NATO troops are training in Norway not far from the country’s border with Russia. NATO says the drills are not linked to the war in Ukraine, but it is on everyone’s mind. "Whilst ...
Article 5 has been invoked only once in NATO history, after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. [50] [51] The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty. [52]
Nato insists it is a purely defensive alliance and does not represent a threat to Russia or to anyone else. However President Putin has long chafed at its expansion into areas which Russia has ...
Some Moldovan politicians, including former Prime Minister Iurie Leancă, have also supported the idea of unifying with neighboring Romania, with which Moldova shares a language and much of its history, and a poll in April 2021 found that 43.9% of those surveyed supported that idea. Romania is a current member of both NATO and the European ...