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
10 month agoRussian "flanker" intercepted @usairforce B-52 bomber and KC-135 over the Baltic Sea
10 month agoLithuania to continue providing medical assistance to Ukrainian servicemen wounded in the ATO area
RuAF radiotraffic in southern Baltic, probably Flanker.
10 month 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.
10 month 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
10 month agoIn Kharkiv started the meeting of the Presidents of Ukraine and Lithuania
10 month ago#USAirForce: KC-135 Refueling a B-1B over Latvia today (June 8, 2017)
10 month agoUS welcomes arrival of first US liquefied natural gas shipment to Central Europe, which arrived in Poland on 6/7.
10 month ago3rd B-1B to arrive at RAF Fairford
Breivik to take his case to European Court of Human Rights: lawyer
10 month agoUSAF RC135U Combat Sent pinging, west of Kaliningrad on daily flight
10 month agoFormer SACEUR @PMBreedlove: In addition to US action, NATO needs other allies to preposition material closer to border
10 month agoFGS Bonn, Air Defense Exercise ADEX, FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and an amphibious assault by Marines aboard ORP Krakow #BALTOPS
10 month 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
10 month 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)
10 month 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
10 month 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
10 month 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.
10 month agoFresh US military hardware recently offloaded at Port of Klaipėda, Lithuania
Poland, Ukraine develop gas hub for energy independence from Russia
