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Watch as NATO planes patrol Europe’s borders with Russia

By Peter McLaren-Kennedy • Published: 15 Apr 2022 • 15:50

NATO planes patrol Europe’s borders with Russia

NATO planes patrol Europe’s borders with Russia Source: NATO

With little end of the war in sight and amid growing threats from Russia, NATO has stepped up its presence in Europe with planes that patrol borders and along the Mediterranean ocean.

NATO said earlier this week that it was shoring up defences in Eastern Europe to provide more protection to those countries on the border with Russia, with countries who in the past chose to remain neutral now giving serious consideration to membership of the organisation.

The increased activity includes moving additional troops and equipment into the area as well moving forward plans to introduce more sophisticated air defence systems.

Ground and air forces have been conducting preparedness in Estonia with Belgian F-16s and UK, French and Danish soldiers in the NATO multinational battalion. The training missions have enabled the Belgian air force to build relationships with allies in Estonia, ensuring critical relationship and communications are in place.

Allies have also been conducting air patrols along EU borders ensuring no further invasions of air space by Russian military and commercial aircraft, the latter banned from the area under European sanctions. Planes are also patrolling the Mediterranean ensuring that the war doesn’t spill out from the Crimean sea into European territory.

The war has brought NATO members together and has reminded countries of the need to protect their borders as allied planes patrol Europe’s borders with Russia.

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Peter McLaren-Kennedy

Originally from South Africa, Peter is based on the Costa Blanca and is a web reporter for the Euro Weekly News covering international and Spanish national news. Got a news story you want to share? Then get in touch at editorial@euroweeklynews.com.

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    • JWolfe

      15 April 2022 • 16:53

      Russia’s dictators are the opposite of modern world governments where the citizens who work to make a nation’s quality of life have a choice to regularly elect and even recall leaders who fail to deliver what they promised during their term of office. They have power because free nations buy their products and allow them to buy products from free nations. What the world is doing now is “better late than never politics, and their are many more evil oppressive governments that need to be isolated. Why are we still buying products from nations that enslave their people and openly lie to the world in name and action, like China, and whose state sponsored industry is destroying the land and oceans. Why do we put up with this? The answer is failure of the media to keep the facts in front of us and failure to ask these questions to candidates at election time, and failure to follow the work of governments. This is why Americans died for a free press, now do the work people died to make possible for media to do!

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