NATO headquarters building. File photoBUCHAREST, June 10. The Bucharest Nine countries are in favor of increasing the number of NATO soldiers on the eastern flank of the alliance, Polish President Andrzej Duda said during the Bucharest Nine summit on Friday in the Romanian capital. Format » Bucharest Nine» unites nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe — Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. >China has named four Russian countermeasures in response to NATO expansion «We want the enhanced forward presence (enhanced presence at the forefront — ed.), which we have today on NATO's eastern flank, not only to spread to additional countries, I'm talking here about Bulgaria, I'm talking about Hungary, I'm talking about Slovakia here — this has already been decided in principle — but we also want it to be transformed into enhanced forward defense — (enhanced forward defense — ed.), so that as a result The battalion groups that we have today have been transformed into brigade groups so that the number of NATO soldiers in individual countries of NATO's eastern flank will increase significantly,» Duda said. He specified that the NATO brigade group «is more than three thousand soldiers.» Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated that further expansion of the alliance will not bring greater security to Europe, NATO has an aggressive character. NATO military presence in the Asia-Pacific
