According to the newspaper, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at the People and Defense conference that the kingdom will send 800 military personnel to Latvia after joining the North Atlantic Alliance in 2025. Dagens Nyheter.
“The government has decided to include a reduced Swedish battalion in the force [НАТО] “It is under the leadership of Canada in Latvia,” he said.
It was noted that the duty of the army would be to protect the border within the allied group, which was formed to “intimidate Russia in order to prevent its attack”. The troops will take part in NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) programme, under which NATO members deploy their troops to the bloc’s eastern countries for short periods of time.
According to the publication, Sweden plans to send a mechanized battalion equipped with armored vehicles to Latvia.
Formerly Swedish Civil Defense Minister Karl-Oskar Bulin stated He spoke about a possible war in Sweden and appealed to citizens to be prepared for hostilities.
Formerly at the US State Department spoke For Sweden’s early entry into NATO.