U.S. President Barack Obama (front row, center R) speaks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (front row, center L) during a family photo at the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland July 8, 2016. Also pictured are Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd row, L-R), Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama; and in the front row, Poland's President Andrzej Duda (far L) and Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani (far R) REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
WARSAW (Reuters) - NATO leaders agreed on Friday to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland for the first time and increase air and sea patrols to reassure allies who were once part of the Soviet bloc following Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
The 28-nation Western defence alliance decided to move four battalions totalling 3,000 to 4,000 troops into northeastern Europe on a rotating basis to display its readiness to defend eastern members against any Russian aggression.
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