NATO battalion will arrive in Latvia by June
A NATO Battalion headed by Canada with more than 1000 servicemen will arrive in Latvia by the end of June.
This was stated by the Commander of the Joint Headquarters of the Latvian National Armed Forces, Leonids Kalnins, as reported by the Delfi news website.
“Before June, smaller NATO units will arrive in Latvia, which will prepare for the arrival of the battalion. By June, the complete battalion will arrive in Latvia,” Kalnins said.
According to him, it is expected that the battalion will be stationed at the military base in Adazi. The first military exercise are scheduled to take place there.
The decision on the deployment of the international NATO battalions in the Baltics and Poland was taken at the Warsaw NATO summit in July 2016.