In response to another question, Pres Trump said he supports Article V - the mutual defense provision in the @NATO Charter.
Russian plane intercepted USAF aircraft over Baltic Sea
1 year agoRussian "flanker" intercepted @usairforce B-52 bomber and KC-135 over the Baltic Sea
1 year agoLithuania to continue providing medical assistance to Ukrainian servicemen wounded in the ATO area
RuAF radiotraffic in southern Baltic, probably Flanker.
1 year agoRussia, Shoigu "priority tasks are rearmament of forces on Western and South-Western strategic directions and equipping of troops in the Arctic zone"
US sends batwing B2 stealth bombers to UK to reassure allies. 1st time B1s, B2s, B-52s all in European theater at same time.
1 year agoSwedish neo-nazi extremists received military training in Russia. The training was organised by Russian reserve officers
NATO Deputy Secretary General @Gottemoeller will visit Finland on 10 and 11 June
1 year agoIn Kharkiv started the meeting of the Presidents of Ukraine and Lithuania
1 year ago#USAirForce: KC-135 Refueling a B-1B over Latvia today (June 8, 2017)
1 year agoUS welcomes arrival of first US liquefied natural gas shipment to Central Europe, which arrived in Poland on 6/7.
1 year ago3rd B-1B to arrive at RAF Fairford
Breivik to take his case to European Court of Human Rights: lawyer
1 year agoUSAF RC135U Combat Sent pinging, west of Kaliningrad on daily flight
1 year agoFormer SACEUR @PMBreedlove: In addition to US action, NATO needs other allies to preposition material closer to border
1 year agoFGS Bonn, Air Defense Exercise ADEX, FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and an amphibious assault by Marines aboard ORP Krakow #BALTOPS
1 year agoUS Marines Amphibious landing near Ventspils as a part of the annual maritime exercise BALTOPS
A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US bomber over the Baltic Sea in international waters, the Pentagon confirms
1 year agoRussia scrambled jet to identify Norwegian P-3 Orion over Barents Sea
“Main thing is to show the unity…EU and also @NATO" per Estonia's Tsahkna "This is one thing Russia is working very hard to break”
![Change in EU security mindset reaction to what [Russia's] Putin has done over the last few years” per Estonia DefMin Tsahkna](https://baltics.liveuamap.com/pics/2017/06/06/21470925_0.jpg)
1 year agoChange in EU security mindset "reaction to what [Russia's] Putin has done over the last few years” per Estonia DefMin Tsahkna
Lithuania, other Baltic states “stand ready to mediate and help” EU-US partnership if needed, per DefMin Karoblis
“We are witnessing a radical positive change in the European mindset” on security per Lithuania's Karoblis; echoes calls for more spending
1 year ago“Peace security and freedom cannot be taken for granted” per Lithuania DefMin Raimundas Karoblis, citing terrorism and Russia
EU battle groups "too costly to be deployed" per Estonia DefMin Tsahkna because costs not shared across member states
1 year ago“We need to make the existing EU battle groups work. They have never been used” per Estonia Defense Minister Margus Tsahkna
TASS: Lavrov: NATO is increasing its military presence near Russia's borders in violation of the act of 1997.
1 year agoFresh US military hardware recently offloaded at Port of Klaipėda, Lithuania
Poland, Ukraine develop gas hub for energy independence from Russia
