Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said today that his country is to temporarily deploy Patriot air defense systems in Lithuania. “The Dutch armed forces are currently preparing for a Patriot air defense unit to conduct an exercise in Lithuania this summer,” Rutte told reporters in Vilnius, flanked by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausenda. “The borders of Lithuania are borders of the European Union and NATO, which makes them our borders too (…) and we will defend them,” he added. President Nausenda welcomed the decision, commenting that it is “an important step” towards the implementation of a circular rotation model of air defense systems in the Baltic Sea region. “We must all remember that the Baltic region and the entire eastern wing of NATO constitute the Alliance's first line of defense,” he added. Earlier, the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense said that the deployment of the Dutch system would take several weeks.
Source: News Beast
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