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Sergey Shoigu parade 2013
Russia Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a trip to Minsk, Belarus today, threatened Poland due to its offer to spend $2 billion to build a base for an American armored division in the territory of the former Warsaw Pact.
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Shoigu threatened Poland because of the possible deployment of the American division, read the headline at RIA Novosti, a Russian news outlet.
“Under these conditions, we <...> must be ready to neutralize possible military threats in all directions,” he said at the joint board of military departments of Russia and Belarus, reported RIA.
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Shoigu said Russia does not want to invade NATO territory but bemoaned the development of increased deployment of NATO forces near the Russian border. A rotating NATO battle group and an American armored brigade is currently stationed in Poland.
