NATO boosts eastern presence ahead of key summit

NATO boosts eastern presence ahead of key summit Brussels (AFP) June 14, 2016 - NATO defence ministers on Tuesday approved sending battalions to the three Baltic states and Poland just weeks before a landmark summit in Warsaw endorses a major build-up to counter a more assertive Russia. Russia's 2014 intervention in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea stung NATO out of its post-Cold War complacency and into a major revamp to boost its readiness and resources to meet a ... more

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