German and Nato troops are ready to 'defend every inch' of alliance territory as forces wrapped up a major exercise in Lithuania.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next It’s been 36 years since so many Nato forces amassed in Europe for a practice run of war with Russia. The World Wide Web was still an idea, the Iron Curtain was crumbling, and the Soviet Union was starting to abandon communism.
Ints Kalnins Photographer: Ints Kalnins Provider: REUTERS Source: REUTERS But Nato sees the exercises as a response to decades of escalating Russian aggression as Putin tries to retain and reassert control over his neighbours. ‘The alliance has been moving its military infrastructure towards our borders for several decades without ceasing’, he said, saying Russia is ‘taking appropriate measures to deal with it’. Military expert Keir Giles previously told Metro.co.
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