Lithuania’s president on Friday echoed his Polish counterpart’s need to have NATO deploy nuclear weapons within the area within the face of a rising menace from Russia.
The 2 heads of state mentioned safety as they noticed a navy train within the Suwalki Hole, a hall that runs the size of the Polish-Lithuanian border, between Russia’s closely militarised Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus.
“The thought of deploying nuclear weapons will not be warmongering or threatening Russia. It is a component of the deterrence system, which ought to act as a very vital deterrent issue,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda advised reporters.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has in latest days proposed stationing nuclear weapons in Poland, although the thought has been dismissed by others in Poland, together with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
On Friday, Duda once more introduced up the thought.
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“The entire NATO territory, in our understanding, have to be defended appropriately, adequately, so it is rather logical {that a} nuclear system ought to be relocated to NATO’s japanese flank,” he mentioned.
“We, as one among these nations, have declared our readiness to host this weapon,” he added.
The presidents spoke in the course of the Courageous Griffin 24/II navy train within the Alytus district of Lithuania.
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Throughout the train, 1,500 troops examined defence situations within the Suwalki Hole, thought of the Achilles’ heel of NATO’s japanese flank.
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