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NATO has “significantly” strengthened its presence in the eastern part of its alliance “to make sure there is no room for miscalculation in Moscow,” the alliance chief said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Latvian President Egils Levits following their meeting, Jens Stoltenberg said: “We have 130 jets at high alert, over 200 ships from the high north to the Mediterranean, and thousands of additional troops in the region.”
“We will protect and defend every inch of Latvia and we will protect and defend every inch of all allied territory,” Stoltenberg added.
He stressed that every country has a responsibility to prevent the war from escalating and spreading beyond Ukraine.
Also, touching upon the evacuation of civilians from Ukraine, the NATO chief said that this is Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since the World War II…
