“We will transform the NATO rapid reaction force and increase its strength to more than 100 thousand people,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, at a meeting in Vilnius of the heads of government of the Baltic States and Germany, expressed hope that concrete steps towards strengthening the eastern wing of the North Atlantic Alliance would be made at the upcoming NATO summit in Madrid.
Before that, Stoltenberg said that NATO's presence in Eastern Europe would be expanded from battalions to brigades.