From: Business Insider By Cameron Manley
- Romania’s Mihail Kogălniceanu air base is set to become NATO’s largest base in Europe.
- A major expansion is expected to allow the base to support 10,000 NATO personnel and their families.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin recently vowed to go “until the end” in the war in Ukraine.
An air base roughly 12 miles from the Black Sea coast and 180 miles from the key port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine is poised to become NATO’s largest base in Europe.
A $2.7 billion project began earlier this year to transform the Mihail Kogălniceanu air base in Romania.
The base, which has been used by the US military since 1999, is set to become the size of a small city, with the capacity to host 10,000 NATO personnel and their families, Euro News Romania previously reported.
Nicolae Crețu, the commander of the air base, told the outlet that the expanded facility would require “maintenance hangars, fuel stores, ammunition, equipment, aviation technical materials, simulators, feeding facilities, accommodation.”
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