KUCOVA, Albania, March 4 (Reuters) - NATO member Albania, which has no fighter jets of its own, opened a rebuilt Soviet-era air base to serve NATO aircraft on Monday amid an increased threat from Russia, Prime Minister Edi Rama said.

NATO has spent over 50 million euros ($54.26 million) on the Kucova Air Base to bolster its presence in the region. Airspace in the Adriatic country of Albania, which borders Greece to the south and Montenegro to the north, is protected by Italy and Greece.

  • barsoapEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Now, there was a verbal agreement that NATO wouldn’t expand into the east,

    There was an agreement that no non-German NATO troops would be east of Soviet/Russian troops in Germany. And they weren’t. Russians took their good time to withdraw after reunification but they were allowed, as is proper, to do it without Americans between them and the eastern border.

    (requiring no NATO troops at all would’ve been unrealistic as the NVA (East German army) got swallowed whole-sale by the Bundeswehr).