“We consider it necessary in the current situation that NATO troops, in particular the United States, be here all the time,” RIA Novosti quotes Rinkevics as saying at a joint press conference with Blinken.

He noted that the parties talked a lot about strengthening the eastern flank of NATO.

Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the Polish authorities are trying to make sure that there are as many US soldiers in the republic as possible.