Spain to deploy NASAMS air defense systems in Lithuania during NATO summit in July

Spain will send a NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system to Lithuania during the NATO summit there, which is scheduled for July 11-12, Report informs referring to TASS.

In this way Madrid will cooperate in ensuring the security of the summit meeting in Vilnius. The Spanish NASAMS, deployed in Latvia since June 2022, will be sent to Lithuania.

“This contribution to the defense of the NATO summit in Vilnius demonstrates our reliability, compatibility with other NATO systems, as well as our commitment to the North Atlantic Alliance,” reads the report.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who took part in a meeting of NATO heads of state and government in Madrid in a remote format in 2022, may arrive at the summit of the alliance in Vilnius.