Canada will increase the number of its troops in Latvia as NATO increases its presence in Europe and the U.S. sends ships to Spain. The U.S., meanwhile, has a clear sense of what it can offer to NATO's beefed up presence in Eastern Europe. Both the Latvian defence minister and the country's chief of the defence staff praised the agreement with Canada. Following the invasion of Ukraine last winter, Denmark rushed nearly 800 troops to Latvia to reinforce the NATO contingent. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears at the NATO summit in Madrid on Wednesday.

Source: CBC News June 30, 2022 03:41 UTC