{"id":320303,"date":"2025-12-21T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320303"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:43:12","slug":"putin-moves-360000-russian-troops-to-europes-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320303","title":{"rendered":"Putin moves 360,000 Russian troops to Europe\u2019s border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Channer \u2013 London Loves Business Dec 17, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A former NATO official and German politician has warned that Vladimir Putin has moved more than 360,000 troops on the border of Europe.<\/p>\n

German politician Roderich Kiesewetter has issued a warning that 2026 is looking highly likely to be the most \u201ccritical\u201d time in history.<\/p>\n

The number of Russian troops is four times the size of the British army and these numbers are building as Putin\u2019s forces are growing along Europe\u2019s border and troops from Belarus are to deploy, this mirrors the troops build up seen in 2022 prior to the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

So far this year more than 400,000 new recruits have joined the Russian Armed Forces<\/a> according to the Kremlin, officials are raising concerns as this is \u201cunprecedentedly intense\u201d as they are conducting winter military exercises.<\/p>\n

Kiesewetter told German broadcaster n-tv that Russia has two military<\/a> battalions in Belarus with numbers between 350,000 and 360,000.<\/p>\n

Kiesewetter warned that \u201cthis is worrying, especially in the Baltic states,\u201d and \u201chundreds of thousands of soldiers who are never deployed in Ukraine\u201d<\/a> who are undergoing strict training.<\/p>\n

He said that government\u2019s across Europe<\/a>, including the UK must prepare all their citizens for conflict as the bloc is now in a \u201ccritical\u201d moment in history as \u201csurvival\u201d depends \u201cnot just through our ability to defend ourselves, and also by not frightening our population, but rather saying: \u2018Attention, this could happen, let\u2019s be careful.<\/p>\n

Chief of the Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard<\/a> Knighton said on Monday evening that more British families will learn to \u201cknow what sacrifice for our nation means\u201d as the UK is preparing to war with Russia.<\/p>\n

Sir Richard said that \u201csons and daughters\u201d have to be ready to defend the UK, stating that a direct attack on Britain is low, but \u201cthat does not mean the chances are zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Royal United Services Institute event in Westminster Chief of the Defence Staff warned<\/a>, \u201cSons and daughters. Colleagues. Veterans will all have a role to play<\/a>. To build. To serve. And if necessary, to fight. And more families will know what sacrifice for our nation means.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes as the NATO<\/a> General Secretary Mark Rutte has issued a very worrying statement warning that World War III is around the corner saying that \u201cwe are Russia\u2019s next target.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Dutch Prime Minister<\/a> that Europe may be on the brink of war and the UK and the bloc must now prepare for war \u201con the scale of our grandparents and great-grandparents,\u201d adding that this is not scaremongering, this is genuine threat.<\/p>\n

Rutte told a security conference event in Berlin, \u201cWe are Russia<\/a>\u2019s next target. I fear that too many are quietly complacent.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo many don\u2019t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now.<\/p>\n

\u201cConflict is at our door. Russia<\/a> has brought war back to Europe. And we must be prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Napoleon and Hitler discovered, when one moves against Russia militarily they tend to push back. HARD. So now, after NATO had deployed its forces closer and closer to Russia\u2019s borders Moscow has pushed back. Let\u2019s hope the action remains confined to troop deployment and not actual combat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320304,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320303\/revisions\/320304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}