Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk traveled Saturday to his country’s border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad to inspect progress in the construction of military fortifications along the eastern frontier, calling it “an investment in peace.”
President’s main tasks in the NATO-member state are foreign and defense policy, as supreme commander of the armed forces.
Leaked German military documents have warned of a full-blown war between Russia and NATO with hundreds of thousands of troops deployed.
Finland joined the three Baltic countries in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory.
A Russian warplane crashed in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Saturday during a training mission, killing the two pilots on board.
Typhoon jets from the RAF and Luftwaffe with the NATO Baltic air policing mission scrambled to intercept two Russian jets.
Russia could be looking to mount a “hybrid attack” in the form of starting another migrant crisis into Europe, Poland’s deputy prime minister has claimed.
MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military said Thursday that it has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s westernmost Baltic region, a move that comes amid soaring tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.
Russia threatened action after Lithuania began to block sanctioned goods from travelling into the exclave of Kaliningrad.
