Media reports suggesting that NATO is considering to modernize Krivolak base in North Macedonia are false, a NATO official told MIA.

Russian media reported today that NATO will get a military base on Krivolak with the country’s membership in the Alliance, and speculate that another base could be opened near Kumanovo.

This is not true. North Macedonia is not yet a NATO member. Krivolak is and will remain a national base, NATO official told MIA.

They further explain that NATO has a Security Investment Program covering all major construction projects in the member states of the Alliance, and that these projects are only considered in member states, and that “there is currently no plan for financing the modernization of the Krivolak base”.