The Russian Federation can prepare for war with NATO countries - isw

It was noted that on October 8, a decree of the President on deprivation of the Northern Fleet of the Strategic Strategic Territorial Association was appeared on the Russian Federal Portal of Projects of Regulatory Acts. According to Roszma, the Northern Fleet can cease to be a separate military-administrative unit equal to the military district.

While its four regions - the Republic of Komi, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions, and the Nenets Autonomous District - will be transferred to the reformed Leningrad Military District. Russian military analyst Yuri Fedorov stated that the restoration of the Leningrad Military District may mean Russia's likely preparation for conflicts with the Baltic and NATO countries.

Analysts said that in 2010, the Russian army united the Moscow and Leningrad military districts into Western military accounting, and in 2014 the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation created the Northern Fleet from the territory that was part of the Western military district, after which the Russian President Vladimir Putin made a navy. military-administrative unit that began to equate to military accounting since January 2021.

In December 2022, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu proposed to cancel changes of 2010 and 2014 and restore the Moscow and Leningrad military districts on the basis of the Western Military District. He also confirmed that as of August 2023, these military districts were actively forming.

It was added that this decision of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation indicates that Russia sees the need for the restructuring of its forces against NATO and a probable position on the Finnish border, despite the fact that it remains unclear how Russia will be able to mobilize, teach and organize these forces in new formations of the military district.

We will remind, on September 26 the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev stated that in Russia every day remains less choice, except for a direct conflict with NATO countries. According to him, the Alliance "turned into an openly fascist block of type of Hitler's axis", but larger.