From: Business Insider By Thibault Spirlet
- The Baltic states and Poland have called for a defense line along Europe’s border with Russia, per Reuters.
- They said it would protect the EU from Russia’s “military” and “hybrid” threats.
- Frontline NATO countries are facing intensifying Russian hybrid warfare threats.
NATO member states Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland have urged the EU to build defensive infrastructure along its 700-mile-long border with Russia and Belarus, according to Reuters .
The leaders of the four countries, which all share a land border with either Russia or Belarus, called for “extraordinary” measures to protect them and their allies.
“Building a defense infrastructure system along the EU external border with Russia and Belarus will address the dire and urgent need to secure the EU from military and hybrid threats,” they said in a joint letter sent to the EU chairman, per Reuters.
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