The incident comes as NATO's Baltops-25 exercises were coming to an end in the Baltic region which involved over 40 ships, 25 aircraft and approximately 9,000 personnel.

Russia wants to test the NATO alliance and extend its confrontation with the West beyond Ukraine, according to Germany's foreign intelligence chief. The warning by Bruno Kahl comes as NATO chief ...

Fighter jets conducting NATO's air policing mission in the Baltic states scrambled three times last week to identify and escort Russian aircraft violating flight regulations. Source: Lithuanian ...

It is widely believed the three Baltic countries have a very good chance of being admitted into NATO during the next round of alliance enlargement in November, but the defense ministers of Estonia ...

NATO'S Baltic drills are part of the alliance's preparations for a potential military clash with Russia, TASS news agency cited Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying in ...

Exercise Baltic Viking is part of a larger mobilization exercise conducted by the Michigan National Guard. The MOBEX coordinated the mobilization of more than 2,000 Soldiers and airmen from both ...

Nordic, Baltic and central European NATO members are committed to Ukrainian membership of the military alliance, the leaders of Poland, Romania and Lithuania said following a summit of the so ...

NATO forces have begun conducting a two-week exercise on the Baltic Sea, with the first naval ships departing from the north-eastern German port of Rostock on Thursday morning. Among the vessels ...

Several NATO allies on the Russian front lines understand the stakes: Poland is already above 4% on defense spending, and the Baltic states are heading to 5% without NATO’s institutional ...

While Sweden is not a NATO nation, NATO and Sweden have a strong partnership and actively work together in peace and security operations, and for both, providing security in the Baltic Sea region ...

Russia Setting Up to 'Test' NATO in Baltics: German Intelligence. Published Jun 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM EDT. By . Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK.