
Nato to send more troops to eastern Europe.
NATO's Secretary General has said the organisation will approve major increases in the forces deployed on its eastern flank, at an emergency summit on Ukraine.
NATO's Secretary General has said the organisation will approve major increases in the forces deployed on its eastern flank, at an emergency summit on Ukraine. Jens Stoltenberg said four new battlegroups would be sent to eastern Europe to counter the threat from Russia. We hear from the US ambassador to NATO.
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Also in the programme: a view from Moscow, where ordinary people continue to support President Putin's war of aggression, and are choosing not to seek out available alternative narratives; and we remember Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state in U.S. history who served under President Clinton and was famous for pushing Nato to intervene in Kosovo, who has died at the age of 84.
(Photo: U.S. Marine take part in a military exercise including 30,000 troops from NATO member countries plus Finland and Sweden, in Evenes, Norway, March 22, 2022 / Credit: Reuters / Yves Herman)
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