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 by AFP Staff Writers Copenhagen (AFP) March 31, 2022
Denmark will send 800 troops to Latvia in May in response to a request from NATO, the Danish prime minister said Thursday. Copenhagen had placed the battalion on alert after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and amid rising tensions between the West and Moscow. Denmark has already sent land and air reinforcements to the Baltic states and Poland. On Tuesday, the Danish government said it was ready to send 800 soldiers to the Baltics if NATO requested them. "We have now received a formal request from NATO to place the battalion in Latvia," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said during a visit to the Baltic nation on Thursday. The troops are due to arrive in May, the Danish military said. NATO has sent a large number of troops to the alliance's eastern flank with reinforcements in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Some 100,000 US troops are now present in Europe, more than 40,000 of them under direct NATO command in eastern Europe. Denmark sent fighter jets to Lithuania before the invasion of Ukraine, and in early March it sent 200 troops to Estonia, two fighter jets to Poland and a frigate to the eastern waters of the Baltic Sea.
Sweden's PM says 'hasn't ruled out' NATO membership Stockholm (AFP) March 30, 2022 Sweden's prime minister said Wednesday she hasn't ruled out NATO membership in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after having insisted until now on her country's policy of military non-alliance. "I don't rule out NATO membership in any way", Magdalena Andersson told Swedish public television SVT, adding that a review of the country's security policy was underway. "I want us to do a thorough analysis of our possibilities in this situation, of the threats and risks associated with them, to ... read more
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