VILNIUS: The Baltic states will formally ask Nato to deploy several thousand troops as a deterrent, Lithuania said Thursday, amid tensions with Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
“We are seeking a brigade-size unit so that every Baltic nation would have a battalion,” military spokesman Captain Mindaugas Neimontas told AFP.
He said Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian generals would soon send a joint request to US General Philip Breedlove, Nato’s top commander.
He said the Baltic states were to seek “permanent rotational Nato forces” as a “deterrence measure given the security situation in the region”.
He refused to elaborate …read more
Source: theSun
