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NATO in 2025 . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
Map of NATO and Russia: Image title: A map of Europe and North America with NATO countries colored in green and Russia colored in orange. Orthographic projection; de-factor borders; precise to 110 km. Width: 600: Height: 600
NATO member states States affected by territorial disputes ( Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine and Japan ( Kuril Islands )) Disputed regions recognised by Russia as either part of its territory or sovereign states ( Abkhazia , Crimea , Donetsk , Luhansk , South Ossetia ), or with de facto indpendent seperatists backed by Russia Transnistria
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Their accession a year later more than doubled Nato’s border with Russia. ... As Russian forces began their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Finland also finalised it’s largest ...
Occupied by Russia before an illegal referendum and annexation 18 March 2014: 26,100 10,077 1,913,731 73.32 189.9 Donetsk (Donetsk People's Republic) Donetsk: 12 May 2014 (from Ukraine) Partly occupied by Russia before sham referendums and declared "annexation" in September 2022: 7,853 3,032 2,302,444 293.19 759.4 Luhansk (Luhansk People's ...
The Westernization trend of many former Soviet allied states led them to privatize their economies and formalize their relationships with NATO countries, the first step for many towards European integration and possible NATO membership. [32] [33] In December 1997, Russian President Boris Yeltsin described NATO expansion as a threat to Russia.
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. More than half of this number have been deployed in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland, which five countries muster a considerable combined ex-NATO force of 259,000 troops.