France will deploy four Mirage 2000 fighter planes to the Baltic states in September for an air policing mission in line with NATO's initiative to boost defence in states bordering Russia, the French army announced on June 23.
Agence France-Presse: France to join air policing mission over Baltics
German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen (R) talks with Lithuanian defense minister Juozas Olekas and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during a Nato Defense Council meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on June 14.
