Canada will send helicopters to Latvia to deter Russia

Starting in the summer of 2024, Canada will transfer 4 Griffon helicopters to the Enhanced Forward Combat Group in Latvia. And from the fall of 2025, the country will also "periodically deploy Chinook transport helicopters", announced the Ministry of Defense of Canada during the visit of the head of the department to Latvia.

"Canada is deploying tactical aviation in Europe for the first time on a permanent basis after the end of operations in Bosnia and Kosovo in the late 1990s and early 2000s," the agency noted.