Brussels, 23 Mar The NATO leaders will support tomorrow at their extraordinary summit in Brussels the deployment of four new multinational battalions in Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria, in the face of the threat posed by Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. “Leaders will strengthen NATO's stance in all domains, land, sea and air. The first step is the deployment of four new battalions,” said Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference on the eve of the summit. “It means that we will have eight multinational battalions on the eastern flank, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea,” he explained, counting on the battalions he already placed in the three Baltic States and Poland after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. CHIEF rja-jug/cat/jgb (More information about the European Union at euroefe.euractiv.es)