VILNIUS, Lithuania — The three Baltic countries are asking NATO to permanently deploy an army brigade to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia.
The chiefs of defence of the three countries are presenting the request in a joint letter this week to NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe, said Capt. Mindaugas Neimontas, spokesman for Lithuania’s chief of defence.
It is necessary because of the security situation,” Neimontas told The Associated Press on Thursday.It’s not getting better in our region, so it will be a deterrent.”
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Source: National Post
