Lithuania is building a military base for German troops near the Russian border

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After completion by the end of 2027, this base is supposed to accommodate a maximum of 4,000 combat-ready German soldiers. This is the first permanent foreign deployment for the German army since World War II.

In 2023, Germany committed to send its troops to Lithuania, a member of NATO and the European Union, on the Russian border.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius compared the decision to the deployment of Allied forces in West Germany during the Cold War to defend Western Europe against a possible Soviet attack. .

Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Vaiksnouras estimated that the country will spend more than 1 billion euros over the next 3 years to develop the base, as one of the largest construction projects in its history. It will cost.

Weiksenuras on the sidelines of the ceremony introduced it as a “huge investment” for a country of 2.9 million people with a tenth of Germany’s economy!