Up to 12,000 officers and soldiers to guard the NATO summit in Lithuania, Spain’s air defence systems to protect a handful of heads of state. Foreign troops and air defence systems are on loan for the July 11-12 summit in Vilnius on July 11-12.

The security personnel, including 3,000 Lithuanian and 1,000 NATO troops will be responsible for the security of NATO’s talking heads and government representatives of 40 countries and 150 other politicians. However, in addition, other police forces will also deploy, number potentially in the thousands.

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Lithuania borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the west and Moscow’s ally Belarus to the east. On Monday, the Spanish embassy in Vilnius announced that its NASAMS air defence system, stationed in Latvia, would be relocated to Vilnius to protect the NATO summit.

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