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US defense chief Lloyd Austin arrives for a NATO defence ministers meeting where providing Kyiv with more air defences will be a key topic for Kyiv's western backers following multiple Russian strikes across the country. IMAGES
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, shakes hands with Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense, on the second day of the meeting of NATO member state Ministers of Defence. SOUNDBITE
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that the United States is not pulling its forces out of Iraq, denying that there is a signed letter from the US side announcing an exit. "Our policy has not changed. We are not leaving Iraq," Esper tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warns that Iran must avoid "further violence and provocations", after the alliance held emergency talks on the growing crisis in the Middle East. SOUNDBITE
British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz visit NATO troops stationed in the northeastern Polish town of Orzysz. IMAGES
NATO forces cross the Vistula River at Korzeniewo in Poland as part of the US-led defence alliance's Exercise Dragon 24, involving around 4,500 soldiers and almost 1,000 vehicles. Dragon 24 is itself part of Exercise Steadfast Defender 24, NATO's largest military exercise since the Cold War, which is designed to test its defences in the face of Russia's war on Ukraine. IMAGES