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NATO scales down drills in Poland over coronavirus

23.03.2020 15:30
NATO has scaled down military exercises in Poland and other European countries amid the spread of the coronavirus.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.Photo: EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have had a major impact on the alliance’s massive Defender-Europe 20 maneuvers, which began at the end of last month and were scheduled to have taken place across the continent during the first half of this year.

Some of the drills have been held in Poland and the Baltic states.

“Defender-Europe 20 was not cancelled but was modified meaning that the full exercise was not implemented as planned. Yet, it demonstrated how the US exercised the capability of moving equipment across the Atlantic,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said.

Radio Poland's Michał Owczarek has the story.

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