The Minister of Armies visited Sunday, March 6, the military base Mihail-Kogalniceanu, provision of the Atlantic Alliance by Bucharest. Several thousand military, including five French hundred, have been positioned to discourage the offensive of the Russian army.
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Its slightly tanned skin still evokes the sun and the 40 ° C to which it has been exposed at the bottom of the Ivory Coast. From now on, it must get used to the other extreme: an icy temperature and a wind blowing from the Black Sea to the Romanian military base Mihail-Kogalniceanu, located 185 kilometers east of Bucharest, on this Sunday March 6th. Hélène, corporal head of first class, age 35, is used to extremes. She has been exhibited since her 20 years, when she joined the army. She is also used to sleeping under a tent alongside about fifty her comrades, young women who have joined, too, the quota of 500 French soldiers sent to Romania. “We are trained to adapt us,” she explains. We know why we are here and it motivates us. The war is what is worse, but we are here to defend a population that has need our support. “
In the next bed, Bénédicte, first class 20 years old, already has two years in the army with intense training within the 27 e Battalion of alpine hunters. Annecy. “The army offered me what I was looking for at the end of my high school education: the adventure, evasion and overflow,” she said. In Romania, we will remain the time it will take, But we know that we are here for a good time. “The war that Russia has triggered in Ukraine, a country located north of Romania, risks lasting. NATO Member since 2004 and the European Union since 2007, Romania has been the eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance that puts all the means to discourage the offensive of the Russian army.
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Mihail-Kogalniceanu is one of the six military bases that Romania has made available to NATO, with an antimissile shield installed by the US Army in Deveseselu, village located in the south of the country. The villagers from Mihail-Kogalniceanu had accustomed to the 900 American soldiers that this base welcomes permanently, but the war in Ukraine changes the game. On February 11, 1,000 other American soldiers landed, plus 500 French, several hundred Dutch, Italians and Germans, and 250 Belgians who are preparing to land in Romania. This deployment takes place in the context of a NATO reaction force, of which France provides command.
On Sunday, the Minister of Armies, Florence Parly, went to Mihail-Kogalniceanu accompanied by the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, and the Minister of Defense, Vasile Dincu. “The war is back in Europe, said M me in front of the European and American armies, gathered under their flag. It is still a few weeks ago, it was unimaginable for many of us . Today, war is a reality in Ukraine at the gates of Romania and the doors of Europe. We can be proud of the responsiveness we have collectively shown. It’s together we will get there. ” / p>
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