NATO said on April 16 it would send more ships, planes and troops to eastern Europe to reassure allies worried by Russia's annexation of Crimea but shied away from new permanent bases in the east as Poland wanted. "You will see deployments at sea, in the air, on land to take place immediately, that means within days," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference after NATO ambassadors agreed the measures.
Reuters: NATO to bolster security of eastern allies worried over Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2014.
