“Our aim is to help Ukraine establish more effective and efficient defense and security structures and to strengthen civilian control over them”, he told journalists after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission in Brussels. The UK will send a battalion to Estonia, the U.S. to Poland and Germany to Lithuania, Reuters added.
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“This decision sends a clear message: if any of our allies is attacked, the whole alliance will respond as one”. “We are also developing scientific projects on the improvement of mine clearing equipment”, he said.
He said: “NATO is an alliance that delivers”.
“NATO will continue to protect all allies against any threat coming from any direction”, he told reporters at the alliance’s Brussels headquarters.
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Canadian defense spokeswoman Ashley Lemire said that, “Unfortunately, we are not in a position to provide any additional details at this time”.
The Secretary General stressed that NATO’s defence and deterrence posture is full-spectrum, from resilience and national defence, to conventional capabilities, to the nuclear dimension.
Mr Stoltenberg explained how the four battalions, each consisting of 800 to 1,000 troops, would deploy on a rotational basis, rather than being based permanently in the host countries.
The Defence Secretary has confirmed that Britain will lead one of four North Atlantic Treaty Organisation multinational battalions in Eastern Europe. He said other countries will contribute to the multinational unit, including France.
Mr Lute said the troops will remain as long as is necessary.
The rise of a revanchist Russian Federation and its actions in Georgia and in annexing Crimea from Ukraine shocked Europe, Stoltenberg said.
Stoltenberg also said that the units would be under the command of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
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Russian Federation bitterly opposes NATO’s expansion into its Soviet-era satellites and last month said it would create three new divisions in its southwest region to meet what is described as a unsafe military build-up along its borders.
