Nato allies are drawing up plans to strengthen their defences in the three Baltic states particularly exposed to Russia.
Britain, Canada and Germany are poised to pool their efforts to protect the ex-Soviet states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
This will include synchronising military exercises by the three Nato battlegroups that the western allies lead in the region.
The Nato battalions — led by British forces in Estonia, German troops in Lithuania and Canadian soldiers in Latvia — are being upgraded to brigades because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
