La bateria de misiles Patriot de Estados Unidos que tanto ha irritado a Rusia, llegará a Polonia a finales de mayo dos meses después de lo esperado.
Será un despliegue temporal, y es parte de los acuerdos Polonia-Estados Unidos para mejorar la defensa aérea. Está previsto que se instale en Morag, al norte de Polonia, cerca del enclave ruso en el Báltico de Kaliningrado, el próximo 24 de mayo.
Rusia recela del despliegue de tropas y equipos norteamericanos cerca de sus fronteras, aunque negara que la flota del Báltico se fuera a reforzar por este hecho.
Los Patriot se desplazarán para misiones de entrenamiento, y no está ligado a las conversaciones que Estados Unidos mantiene con otros países del antiguo bloque del Este para mejorar su defensa aérea, y a las que se opone Rusia.
La instalación de los Patriot tiene además un alto valor simbólico para Polonia, que siempre se ha quejado de Estados Unidos no haya desplegado militares en su país, a pesar de pertenecer hace mas de diez años a la OTAN.
La llegada de los Patriot a Polonia, coincide con los esfuerzos entre Moscú y Varsovia para mejorar sus relaciones bilaterales.
(reuters.com)
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A planned battery of U.S. Patriot missiles that has irritated Russia will now arrive in Poland in late May, nearly two months behind schedule.
The temporary deployment of the battery, along with a 100-man team to operate it, is part of a Polish-U.S. agreement signed late last year to upgrade the NATO member's air defences.
The battery was now expected to reach Morag, a town in northern Poland near Russia's Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, around May 24.
Russia is wary about the deployment of U.S. troops and hardware near its borders, though its defence ministry denied in January suggestions that it might bolster its Baltic Fleet in response to the Patriot deployment in Poland.
The Patriot deal is primarily about training and is not linked to broader U.S. talks with Poland and other ex-communist states about future missile defence systems that Moscow opposes.
The battery, which would come to Poland from Germany several times a year, also has symbolic value for Warsaw, which has long complained that it hosts no U.S. troops or major military installations 10 years after it joined NATO.
The arrival of the Patriot battery coincides with fresh efforts by Moscow and Warsaw to improve frosty ties after a plane crash on Russian soil on April 10 killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other senior officials.
(reuters.com)
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