Lithuania says Netherlands to send additional troops

VILNIUS (Reuters) – The Netherlands will send additional troops to Lithuania to reinforce the Baltic NATO deployment, the Lithuanian defence minister said on Saturday.

“Yesterday I spoke with Dutch minister. There are 70 Dutch soldiers coming to Lithuania, they will add to the Dutch soldiers already (here),” Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas told a news conference in Vilnius.

(Reporting by Andrius Sytas, editing by Terje Solsvik)

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