3 years agoBritish F-35 jets have landed at Ämari Air Base in Estonia Estonia as they prepare to undertake air patrols over Eastern Europe to deter Russia from taking any aggressive actions against NATO members
3 years agoBlinken says NATO looking at more permanent deployments in the Baltics. "We're continuously reviewing within NATO our defense posture, including questions of extending the deployment of forces, looking at questions of more permanent deployments," he told reporters from Lithuania
3 years ago Lithuania's Foreign Minister: All countries in the region are looking for security guarantees to protect their borders
3 years ago Blinken will meet @EmmanuelMacron in Paris on Tuesday evening, @StateDeptSpox says. But first @SecBlinken will stop in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
3 years agoA busy morning for the people at Estonia Ämari Air Base in Estonia, with three recent departures and two suspected upcoming arrivals, including a VIP United States Air Force VC-32A and a Motor Sich An-12 (likely carrying weaponry for flag-Ukraine)
3 years ago French Defense Minister: The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will take up a position in the Mediterranean for reconnaissance missions over the Baltic countries
3 years agoPanama-registered Estonia-owned general cargo vessel HELT imo:8402589 has sunk in Black Sea near Odesa after allegedly hit by seamine. 2 crewmembers rescued. 4 unaccounted
3 years ago The first of 16,000 foreign volunteers are ready to defend Ukraine, said the President of Ukraine. Earlier, The Minister for Foreign Affairs Kuleba said that the volunteers came from 16 countries, including Great Britain, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Israel and others
3 years agoFinland and Sweden, two Arctic states that are not NATO members, received a letter from Russia demanding security guarantees. Finland is preparing a response to these demands, its foreign minister says
3 years ago"Two Russian SU 27s and two Russian SU 24s violated Swedish airspace. The violation was short-lived and took place east of Gotland, across the sea
3 years ago "Our message to President Putin is: stop the war, pull out all your forces from Ukraine & engage in good faith in diplomatic efforts; the world stands with Ukraine," - SG @jensstoltenberg at a press conference in Tapa Estonia with PM @KajaKallas & PM @BorisJohnson
3 years ago Lithuania's president asks NATO to send more military reinforcements to the Baltic states
3 years ago .@USArmy soldiers assigned to the @173rdabnbde traveled from Aviano Air Base in Italy to Latvia in order to support @NATO allies
3 years ago Lithuania closes its airspace to Russian flights from today
3 years agoTens of thousands of people gathered at Tallinn's Freedom Square to support Ukraine. Similar events across Estonia Estonia
3 years ago Ministry of Defense of Latvia: I just got out of box proposal how to end the Russian aggression. West announces that every Russian soldier which surrenders to Ukrainians will receive asylum in the West. I think its victorious idea from artist Aigars Bikše. Countries which do not give weapons to UA give asylum
3 years ago Estonian Ministry of Transport: We plan to close our airspace to Russian planes
3 years ago Estonia sending Javelin anti-armour missiles and anti-aircraft munitions to Ukraine -public broadcaster quoting Defence ministry official
3 years agoJens Stoltenberg: Spoke with President Sauli @niinisto on Russia's attack on Ukraine. At our NATO Summit tomorrow our close partners Finland, Sweden & the EU will join us to address the greatest crisis for European security in a generation
3 years ago Ukraine Defense Minister: The birds from Latvia landed. Def ammunition & Stingers
3 years ago Presidents of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania Volodymyr Zelensky, Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nauseda met in Kyiv
3 years ago Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered 800 U.S. troops to the Baltic region and eight F-35 fighter jets to NATO's eastern flank. Senior U.S. defense official said 20 AH-64 attack helicopters moving to Baltics and 12 helicopters to Poland
3 years ago The Pentagon: 20 Apache attack helicopters will move from Germany to the Baltic region
3 years ago Biden "In response to Russia's admission that it will not withdraw its forces from Belarus, I have authorized the additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment already stationed in Europe, to strengthen our Baltic allies Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
3 years ago German Defense Minister: We are ready to send more troops and aircraft to Lithuania
3 years ago Estonia's President - who is visiting Ukraine's President in Kyiv - says a "threat to Ukraine is a threat to the security of Europe". Alar Karis says the door must stay open for Ukraine to join NATO and the European Union. "You belong in Europe"
3 years ago .@SecDef on Russia around Ukraine "They are uncoiling and are now poised to strike"
3 years ago Defense Sec Austin: "I agree with President Biden that [Putin] has made his decision"
3 years ago US Defense Secretary: We hope that Putin will retreat from the brink of conflict
3 years ago Defense Minister of Ukraine: today we got Javelins from our friends,neighbors&partners-Estonia
