1 month agoOn April 26th, Finland & Estonia signed an MoU on large-scale transport projects such as the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel, Rail Baltica & North Sea–Baltic Sea core network corridor The 100km tunnel would cut travel time from 2h to 30 minutes & turn the 2 capitals into a twin-city
1 month agoParatroopers assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division exiting U.S. Air Force C-17 over Estonia during Joint Forcible Entry Operation for SwiftResponse 21. @82ndABNDiv
1 month agoOn May 8th, 2021, flag-usflag-us 3rd Brigade Combat Team @PantherBrigade, 82nd Airborne Division executed after a long direct flight from Fort Bragg a night time airborne operation at Nurmsi Airfield, Estonia, in support of exercise SwiftResponse 21, part of DEFENDEREurope 21
1 month ago[email protected] Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery governmentnt, #41stFieldArtilleryBrigade, kick off #FiresShock and #SwiftResponse21 in Estonia
1 month agoPreparing for the MLRS live fire exercise in Tapa with @USArmyEURAF and Estonian and @NATO Allies
1 month agoPresident of Ukraine Zelensky together with leaders of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia in Warsaw attending celebration of 230 years of Constitution of 3 May 1791
1 month agoItalian Air Force F-35 fighters arrived in Estonia yesterday
On April 28, patrol aircraft over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea at the Latvian territorial sea border were identified by Russian Armed Forces aircraft "Tu-134" and 2x "Su-24"
Eight people die in fire at illegal hostel in Riga, Latvia, officials say
Russia expels 2 employees of Lithuania Embassy in Moscow, 1 from Latvian and 1 from Estonian embassies
1 month agoGerman Navy Braunschweig-class corvette FGS Braunschweig (F260) shadowing Russian Navy Project 20380 Steregushchiy-class corvette Stoikiy (545) off of Rostock, Germany - April 27, 2021 FGSBraunschweig f260 rfsStoikiy * photo posted by @KielDolphin
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Ambassadors of Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia for tomorrow
In Kaliningrad 74-year-old Petr Zuev, who has diabetes, was jailed for 15 days for protesting last week
1 month agoUSNavy Boeing P-8A Poseidon (hex AE67D8) operating over northern Poland, near Kaliningrad
Diplomats of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia may already begin to figure out which of them will have to leave Moscow - Russian Foreign Ministry
Estonia expels Russian diplomat as a sign of solidarity with the Czech Republic
Latvia expels Russian diplomat as a sign of solidarity with the Czech Republic
Lithuania expels two Russian diplomats in solidarity with the Czech Republic
2 month agoLuftwaffe: 2 Russian bombers, escorted by a fighter were flying into the Baltic Sea from mainland Russian, where they operated with a airborne warning and control airplane. The Blackjack bombers flew in international airspace and returned to mainland Russia after roughly 3 hours
Russian Tu-160s made a flight over the international waters of Baltic Sea. Jet fighters from Denmark, Germany and Finland were in the air for interceptions
Latvian FM: Latvia expresses solidarity with our Czech allies over the decision to expell 18 Russian spies working under diplomatic cover. Subversive actions by Russian agents causing explosion in the ammunition depot & death of people are deplorable, perpetrators must be punished
2 month agoRussian Navy Russian Navy Ropucha Class Landing ships Alexander Otrakovsky 031, Kondopoga 027 (Cф Northern Fleet), followed by Kaliningrad 102 and Korolev 130 (Бф Baltic Fleet) have transited northbound through Istanbul today towards Black Sea
Russian Ambassador summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Foreign ministers of the Baltic states said that the only part escalating the situation in Ukraine was Russian Federation. Latvian FM @edgarsrinkevics said the EU focus is on a diplomatic solution but should be prepared to impose new sanctions on Russia if these efforts fail
Lithuania's FM @GLandsbergis called on Russia to return to negotiations in Minsk and Normandy formats and said there will be consequences if 'red lines are crossed'. The red line for Ukraine would be Russia crossing its border, Ukraine's foreign minister Kuleba said
2 month ago'Russia is openly threatening war and destruction of the Ukrainian statehood. We have two answers to that: one, it will not happen, and two, we are not afraid', Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said at a briefing with foreign ministers of three Baltic countries in Kyiv
The Latvian Foreign Ministry sent a protest to the Russian Embassy in connection with information that the Russian military attaché Ushakov held a quarantine party
US Secretary of Defense: The United States will increase the number of its troops in Germany
Tests of the power system of Belarus with the disconnection of power lines with Lithuania were successful, showed its ability to work without ties with the Lithuanian - Ministry of Energy of Belarus
Latvia stopped commercial imports of electricity from the Russian Federation for two days, April 8 and 11, when a test disconnection of the transmission line between Belarus and Lithuania was carried out
