They were joined by Defence Minister Anita Anand, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and Canadian defence chief Gen.
Wayne Eyre for a tour of a massive battlefield scattered with a dozen heavy tanks and artillery pieces.
"Having a whole bunch of flags beside each other in the field" is a challenge, he added, but he praised the soldiers for setting an example for the world by working so well with their allies. It is one of four such efforts in the Baltics and Poland, designed to demonstrate the strength of the NATO alliance in the region against Russia.Putin takes great offence at the NATO buildup on his country's borders. He has opposed NATO's expansion into countries that were once in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.
Trudeau said the ongoing show of unity among NATO allies and other democracies to back Ukraine is a critical part of bringing the crisis to a close. "We are demonstrating that, unlike what Putin thinks or mistakenly thought, democracies can and will defend not just themselves and their territory, but the principles and rules and the values that actually make us successful," Trudeau said.