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Chega today requested an urgent parliamentary hearing of the Minister of National Defence regarding the deployment of Armed Forces personnel to support the population after Storm Kristin, deeming the response “manifestly insufficient” and criticising the Government.
The Armed Forces have over 1,000 military personnel deployed on the ground to provide direct support to the public, along with 211 vehicles and 12 pieces of emergency communications equipment, the General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA) announced today.
The Army tells the newspaper Público that it made the requested resources available. So far, only 240 military personnel have been deployed on the ground.
Initial contingent may grow to up to 100 personnel. The deployment includes medical support, search and rescue, ten tonnes of equipment and experts from LNEC. Floods have already killed 137 people.
An assurance from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Also, Luís Montenegro does not rule out sending Portuguese troops to Ukraine once a ceasefire is reached.
At 13:00, the Prime Minister acknowledged the possibility of sending Portuguese military personnel to Ukraine.
