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RIGA, Latvia — The Canadian officer commanding a NATO battle group in Latvia says Russian forces would be routed if they dared launch an attack against Canadian troops and their allies stationed in the Baltic country on Russia's western border.
Van Eijk spoke to The Canadian Press in his modest office in a temporary building at Camp Adazi, the battle group base in the middle of a forest about a 45-minute drive from Riga, the Latvian capital. "The expectation of that is changing," he said in reference to a vision of the Russian army as one of the most imposing and best equipped in the world.
Van Eijk, who has been posted in Latvia for five months, says NATO has precise information about the Russian forces on the other side of the Latvian border — which lies just 200 kilometres from Camp Adazi — including their state of readiness and even their daily activities. The NATO battle group, known as eFP Latvia, serves both as a dissuasion and a shield in the event of an attack. It is larger than a regular Canadian battle group,"verging on too big," its commander said, and it has all the equipment it needs.
The eFP Latvia had held four training exercises in three months involving the entire battle group, an effort van Eijk describes as"phenomenal." Soldiers are rotated in and out every six months so they are not tired, he said.
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