Nato sends support to eastern Europe over Ukraine crisis

Deployments of ships, planes and troops amid concern over Russia’s annexation of Crimea

Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 19:36 Updated: Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 22:24

Villagers talk with Ukrainian soldiers as they gather at a railway to stop Ukrainian tanks moving towards the airport in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Photograph: Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

Villagers talk with Ukrainian soldiers as they gather at a railway to stop Ukrainian tanks moving towards the airport in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Photograph: Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

Nato said today it would send more ships, planes and troops to eastern Europe to reassure allies worried by Russia’s annexation of Crimea but shied away from new permanent bases in the east as Poland wanted.

“You will see deployments at sea, in the air, on land to take place immediately, that means within days,” Nato secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference after Nato ambassadors agreed the measures.

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