Turkey's consent to back the accession of Sweden and Finland to Nato is an important move, a government official said on Tuesday evening.
Nato will upgrade its battle groups on its eastern flank to brigade level, and will increase its high-readiness forces to 300,000 troops from the current number of 40,000, Jens Stoltenberg, Nato secretary-general, has said.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, said the West had not done enough to defend Ukraine and urged Nato and the EU to deliver more weapons to the country that is defending itself from the Russian onslaught.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that it is the duty of the North Atlantic Alliance to defend all allies, and that this applies to the entire territory of Poland, including the Suwałki Gap in north-eastern Poland, and Lithuania.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has assured Poland of the alliance’s commitment to defend Polish territory.
Nato will not send troops to Ukraine, Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after their talks in Poland on Tuesday, which were called in face of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and European Commission (EC) head Ursula von der Leyen discussed European security and the Russia-Ukraine crisis at Monday talks in Brussels.
Poland's foreign minister appealed at a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Riga for a "strong Nato signal" against Russia's aggressive policy towards its neighbours, most recently Ukraine, the Polish Foreign Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The Polish president has proposed that Nato increase the readiness and size of its forces on its eastern flank.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera that the alliance is in solidarity with Poland over Belarus's "cynical and inhuman" use of migrants as a tool of hybrid tactics.
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