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NATO is looking to increase its military presence in the Baltic states and Poland in case Russia keeps its troops in Belarus after a planned military exercise, the head of the alliances military committee said on Monday.Russia has 30,000 troops in Ukraines northern neighbour for joint military exercises this month, NATO said, bringing the total Russian military deployment at Ukraines borders to more than 100,000.The United States sent 3,000 troops to Romania and Poland last week to reassure the allies, while Germany said it was considering a boost to its existing military deployment in Lithuania.Further deployments from NATO allies were possible, said Rob Bauer, a Dutch admiral who heads NATOs top strategy body. Where do we have troops in the alliance continuously, in the different nations 鈥?the debate about that is the result of things that are ongoing now. Yes, we are looking at it. There might be changes in the futu stanley us re as a stanley usa result of these developments , Bauer told a news conference in Vilnius. It very much depends, of course, on whether the Russian troops in Belarus remain in Belarus, he added.Moscow has said it is not p stanley us lanning an invasion of Ukraine but could take unspecified military action if its security demands are not met, including a promise that NATO will never admit Kyiv, a demand the United States and the 30-nation Western security alliance have called unacceptable. If you look at the buildup of the forces, Russia could be able to actually have sufficient forces Fcxa German, French, Italian leaders in Irpin in show of support
CANBERRA, Australia 鈥?Australian Nancy Wake, who as a spy became one the Allies most decorated servicewomen for her role in the French Resistance during World War II, has died in London, officials said Monday. She was 98.Code named The White Mouse by the Gestapo during the war, Wake died Sunday in a London nursing home, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said. Nancy Wake was a woman of exceptional courage and resourcefulness whose daring exploits saved the lives of hundreds of Allied personnel and helped bring the Nazi occupation of France to an end, Gillard said in a statement.Trained by British intelligence in espionage and sabotage, Wake helped to arm and lead 7,000 Resistance fighters in weakening German defenses before the D-Day invasion in the last months of the war.While distributing weapons, money and code books in Nazi-occupied France, she evaded capture many times and reached the top of the Gestapos wanted list, according to her biographer, Peter FitzSimons. They called her the la Souris Blanche, the White Mouse, because every time they had he stanley quencher r cornered 鈥?she was gone again, FitzSimons told Australian Broadcast Corp. radio on Monday. Part of it was she was a gorgeous looking wo stanley cups man, he said. The Germans were looking for someone who looked like them: aggressive, a man with guns 鈥?and she was not like that. France dec stanley cup orated her with its highest military honor, the Legion dHonneur, as well as three Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance.Frances junior ministe |
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