NATO’s deployment of additional resources to the Baltic region despite Russia’s opposition was a “necessary step” based on Moscow’s “aggressive actions,” the Western military alliance’s supreme commander says.
U.S. General Curtis Scaparrotti, speaking to RFE/RL on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels on July 12, said that “four battalions is not a threat to Russia,” referring to the additional forces stationed on the alliance’s eastern flank and in Poland in recent months.
