Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has stated in a meeting with the US Congress delegation that US Navy ships will reach the Baltic Sea in the fall due to the Zapad 2017 Russian-Belarusian exercises.
"Before the next Zapad 2017 exercises, the US is fulfilling its Lithuanian protection obligations." In Lithuania, NATO's military and military equipment are stationed, NATO's air policing mission has been strengthened with additional fighters. From US military ships to the Baltic Sea, "the president's press service quoted Dalia Grybauskaite as saying.
US fighters landed at the Air Force Base in Lithuania in Siauliai. According to the ministry, since September 1, NATO's air policing mission over the three Baltic states will be conducted by Lakenheath-based US military personnel stationed in the United Kingdom. From the beginning of May, the mission was carried out by the Air Force of Poland.
The joint Russian-Belarusian exercises will run from 14 to 20 September in the territory of Belarus. According to data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, about 12,700 military personnel, 70 aircraft and helicopters, 680 units of military equipment, including 250 tanks, 200 artillery pieces, missile systems and mortars are planned to participate. Of 10 vessels.
The head of the General Staff and deputy defense minister of Belarus, Oleg Belokonev, earlier said that the reaction of some countries to the Zapad-2017 maneuvers is incomprehensible, given the increase in NATO forces near the borders of Belarus And Russia.
The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has repeatedly stated that foreign observers are invited to attend the Zapad-2017 exercises.
According to the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, General Aleksandr Fomin, the exercises will have an exclusively defensive character, will be trained the fight against terrorists supported from abroad.
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