Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that NATO is expanding its presence in Eastern Europe via temporary deployments of additional forces and equipment and is considering additional permanent bases in the Baltics amid Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.
Blinken made the remarks at a March 7 press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he sought to reassure Washington’s Eastern European allies, who have been rattled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and fear that they could be next.
