Sweden says it will hold naval exercises in the Baltics with military allies
Sweden will participate in a naval exercise in the Baltic Sea with the nations that are part of a northern European military force, said Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist after a meeting in London.
The United States and its European allies announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday after President Vladimir Putin recognized two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine and ordered the deployment of Russian “peacekeeping” troops there. – It is both a security policy statement and a signal that we can cooperate, that we can increase our military capacity together and that we want to cooperate with each other to counter crisis situations of various kinds, Hultqvist said at a press conference.
The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) is a group consisting of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Finland and Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. “The invasion of Ukraine started in 2014 and it is now continuing through the measures that Russia has taken and it is a violation of all international law,” said Hultqvist, adding that Sweden was preparing to increase aid to Ukraine.
The marine exercise is designed to ensure free navigation of the Baltic Sea, Hultqvist said without developing the time for the exercise.
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