Canada to increase its NATO military presence in Latvia, Trudeau says
contribution to a NATO mission in Latvia, committing $2.6 billion in funding over three years and up to 2,200 Canadian troops for persistent deployment.
About 800 Canadian Armed Forces members are already part of the Canada-led battle group in the Baltic country, making it the country’s largest overseas mission. “Canada and all countries must be clear that Russia’s unprovoked war on an independent country, on a free and democratic Ukraine, is a threat to freedom, international law, human rights and the whole set of shared democratic values that generations of soldiers have fought to defend,” said Trudeau.Last month, Anand announced that a Leopard 2 tank squadron with 15 tanks and about 130 personnel would join the mission starting this fall.
The alliance has doubled the number of battle groups in the region since the war began, and has plans to increase the size and scope of some of them to be combat-ready brigades.A joint road map signed by Anand and her Latvian counterpart sets out three phases for scaling up the Latvia battle group to a brigade, and says they aim to complete the buildup in 2025.
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