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NATO Agree To Provide Further Support To Ukraine

File image: Some NATO members 24.03.22 via @USNATO/Twitter

Including jets, submarines, drones & combat ships

NATO countries have agreed to provide further support to Ukraine.

Additional troops and military assistance is to be sent to the region.

This will include jets, submarines, drones and combat ships - while the UK will send missiles.

Leaders from the military alliance have met in Brussels today, to discuss Russia's invasion.

G7 and EU leaders are also meeting today - in a series of back-to-back summits.

NATO has also announced new battle groups will be stationed in four Eastern European countries, while there'll be better protection for refugees.

30-year old Ilona Lemekha has left her husband and family behind in Ukraine:

Secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, spoke after the meeting:

 

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