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APNewsBreak: Poland to move 1,000s of troops east

Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak tells the Associated Press in an interview in his office in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, that the country will move thousands of troops toward its eastern borders in a historic realignment of a military structure built in the Cold War. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak tells the Associated Press in an interview in his office in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, that the country will move thousands of troops toward its eastern borders in a historic realignment of a military structure built in the Cold War. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak tells the Associated Press in an interview in his office in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, that the country will move thousands of troops toward its eastern borders in a historic realignment of a military structure built in the Cold War. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

By Associated Press 2 min read

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland will move thousands of troops toward its eastern borders in a historic realignment of a military structure built in the Cold War, the country’s defense minister told The Associated Press on Monday.

Tomasz Siemoniak said the troops are needed in the east because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

“The geopolitical situation has changed, we have the biggest crisis of security since the Cold War and we must draw conclusions from that,” Siemoniak said.

He said that at least three military bases in the east will see their populations increase from the current 30 percent of capacity to almost 90 percent by 2017, and that more military hardware will be moved to those bases as well.

He said it was not some “nervous or radical move” but that because of this “situation of threat we would like those units in the east of Poland to be more efficient.”