The meeting comes ahead of a June 29-30 NATO summit in Madrid that will seek to set a determined course for the alliance in coming years.
NATO defense ministers gathered Thursday for talks focusing on bolstering forces and deterrence along the military alliance's eastern borders to dissuade Russia from planning further aggression.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said allies will take decisions on the scale of their posture for the longer term"to ensure that we can defend every inch of Allied territory." Artis Pabriks, the Latvian defense minister, said the military alliance should position larger armed forces and material in Baltic countries.
Stoltenberg saluted the United States' decision to send an additional $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine and said NATO allies are"prepared to continue to provide substantial, unprecedented support" to the country.
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