It is noted that the participants of the summit will protect the Patriot and Nasams air defense systems. To do this, the Spanish military unit will be temporarily transferred from Latvia to Lithuania at the time of the summit, where it was part of the Allied International Battalion. "We can confirm that Spain is contributing to the security of NATO summit in Vilnius with the help of the NASAMS air defense unit," Spanish diplomats said.
At the same time, Germany has already transferred to the capital of Lithuania Patriot, the authors of the publication said. "The Patriot system for the first time performs combat missions in Lithuania, the impeccability of its work on the spot will be provided by a German crew on the basis of collective decisions," the press service of the Lithuanian Armed Forces said.
It is noted that other defense agents will also be deployed in Lithuania in accordance with plans, procedures, communications and logistics decisions agreed in advance before NATO Summit. We will remind, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will not be present at the NATO summit, if the allies "do not show courage". The President's office noted that Kiev wants to get a response to the application that Ukraine filed in September last year.
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