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Live Blog: NATO's Warsaw Summit

Key Points

-- U.S. President Barack Obama said there can be “no business as usual” with Russia until it “fully implements” the agreement aimed at ending the war between Kyiv’s forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

-- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Russia to halt its "political, military and financial support for separatists" battling Ukrainian forces in the east of the country as the alliance reaffirmed its support for the Kyiv government.

-- NATO leaders agreed to continue training Afghan security forces into 2017, prolonging a support mission in a country that the alliance chief said "still faces serious instability and violence" a decade and a half after the Taliban was driven from power.

-- NATO leaders have endorsed a major new deployment of armed forces to Eastern Europe.

* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Warsaw (GMT/UTC +2)

11:16 8.7.2016

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has blasted NATO as an "absolutely short-sighted organization" for suggesting Moscow poses a threat to Europe.

"It is absurd to talk about any threat coming from Russia at a time when dozens of people are dying in the center of Europe and when hundreds of people are dying in the Middle East daily," he said.

"We aren't the ones getting closer to NATO's borders," he added.

11:02 8.7.2016

10:13 8.7.2016

09:58 8.7.2016

U.S. President Barack Obama had reassuring words about the European Union in the wake of Britain's "Brexit" vote to leave the bloc.

"We cannot lose sight of the extraordinary achievement that European integration continues to be," he said in Warsaw, flanked by European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

"More than 500 million people speaking 24 different official languages in more than two dozen countries, 19 with a current currency," he said. "Every member of the EU is a democracy. No EU country has ever raised arms against another."

Despite the challenges, Obama said the United States will always have "a strong and enduring interest in a united, democratic Europe."

09:40 8.7.2016

09:17 8.7.2016

Russia's state-run news agency Sputnik is stepping up its efforts to discredit NATO and the EU:

09:00 8.7.2016

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance is boosting its presence on Europe's eastern borders “in response to what Russia did in Ukraine.”

Speaking to journalists, he said Russia has shown it is “willing to use force against sovereign nations in Europe," and denounced Moscow's "illegal" annexation of Crimea.

NATO's response, he said, is “defensive, proportionate, and fully in line with our international commitments."

08:40 8.7.2016

Stoltenberg: "Today, we will agree to enhance our forward presence in the east of the Alliance. In Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and here in Poland. We will deploy, by rotation, a robust, multinational battalion in each of the countries. Making clear that an attack against one Ally will be met by forces from across the Alliance."

A full transcript of his speech is available here.

08:15 8.7.2016

08:05 8.7.2016

The BBC reports that hundreds of British troops will be sent to Poland and Estonia as part of NATO's response to potential threats from Russia on Europe's eastern border.

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