NATO air policing

A Russian IL-20 intelligence collection aircraft was detected on Tuesday, 21 October, in the vicinity of the NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea heading from Kaliningrad towards Denmark, NATO sources reported.

With tensions rising between Russia and Western countries over the military crisis in Ukraine, NATO is reporting a marked increase in Russian provocations in the skies over member states in Eastern Europe and the Baltics this year, The Financial Times reports. “You have to go a long way back to see ...

Lithuania trusts NATO but the country's residents are alarmed by the situation in Ukraine and they need additional guarantees, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told CNN.

Šiauliai City Council on Thursday decided to cancel a controversial agreement on an investment project near a military airport where NATO air policing mission is based.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York. The meeting focused on new challenges to European and global security, further development of transatlantic relations, and bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and the United States of Ameri...

F-18 Hornet fighter-jet of Canada's Royal Air Force made an emergency landing at the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Friday.

Paradoxically enough, it is during the term of the US president who thought Europe's security system a done deal and insisted on a "reset" in relations with Russia that Lithuania and other Baltic states will finally become full-fledged members of NATO.

Lithuania expects American troops to stay in Lithuania and NATO to agree on additional measures to ensure the country's security, says a senior adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė as the Lithuanian leader prepares to meet US President Barack Obama in Tallinn.

The Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Monday hosted the official rotation ceremony of contingents in charge of NATO's Baltic air policing mission.

Germany will be taking over the responsibility of supporting the Baltic Air Policing mission from Ämari Air Base in Estonia. From September until end of the year, up to six Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon jets will patrol the skies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in coordination with NATO fighter je...

Four F-18 Hornet fighter jets of the Royal Canadian Air Force landed at the Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Tuesday.

Canadian fighter jets are set to arrive in Lithuania to take part in NATO's Baltic air policing mission for the first time. Four F-18 are scheduled to land at the Lithuanian Air Force Air Base in Šiauliai at noon.

Polish Mig-29 fighter jets scrambled from the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in northern part of the country on Friday to escort Russian airplanes flying close to the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea, Lithuanian officials confirmed.

Polish aviators, who are heading the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states for the fifth time, say that they are faced with growing activity of the Russian Air Forces.

NATO patrol jets detected two Russian fighter jets "Su-24" near the territorial waters of Latvia in the Baltic Sea last weekend, informs LETA, quoting Latvia's National Armed Forces.

Military jets that made several rounds over Vilnius on Monday afternoon startled and frightened many a local resident who heard their deafening roar. DELFI received several emails from readers about the NATO air policing aircraft having flown above their homes. A mother says she had to reassure her ...