BRUSSELS: Nato was set Thursday to agree a major boost to its defences in eastern Europe including six bases and a spearhead force of 5,000 troops in response to what it called Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg insisted that the moves likely to be approved by defence ministers meeting in Brussels were purely defensive, but the increased presence on Russia’s borders is likely to rile Moscow.
With Eastern European states concerned by the worst tensions with Russia since the Cold war, the bases will be in the alliance’s three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — plus Poland, …read more
Source: theSun
