Russia may not stop with Ukraine – NATO looks to its weakest link
Posted on AllSides March 21st, 2022
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REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
Hours after Russian missiles first struck Ukrainian cities on Feb. 24, German naval commander Terje Schmitt-Eliassen received notice to sail five warships under his command to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia to help protect the most vulnerable part of NATO's eastern flank.
Ukraine crisis assets Map showing the major land and sea chokepoints in the Baltic region
The hasty dispatch was part of Germany's scramble to send "everything that can swim out to sea," as the navy's top boss phrased it, to defend an area military strategists have long...
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