“We started the largest Defender Europe 2020 exercises in many years. 37 thousand soldiers will take part in them, including 20 thousand from the USA. The first US Army personnel have already crossed the Polish border, ”he wrote on his Twitter.
Earlier, the chief of the General Staff of the Armed forces of Russia Valery Gerasimov expressed concern about the anti-Russian scenarios of NATO military exercises.
On February 22, the first American troops arrived in Germany to transfer to Poland.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the planned exercises of Defender Europe in Eastern Europe "tracing paper of the Cold War", which lead to a worsening of the situation in the field of military security.