Germany has made its first everlasting international army deployment since World Battle Two, sending troops to Lithuania’s jap flank.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and defence secretary Boris Pistorius attended an inauguration ceremony for the deployment, within the firm of Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda, within the nation’s capital metropolis of Vilnius.
“Peace in Europe has been damaged, every day Russia is violating the order that we collectively adopted as a lesson from the horrors of the Second World Battle” Merz mentioned.
Lithuania is bordered by Latvia and Poland, in addition to Russian exclave Kaliningrad to the west and Moscow’s ally Belarus to the east.
The BBC’s Berlin correspondent, Jess Parker, reviews from the inaugural ceremony in Vilnius.
