More than 50 ships of various classes and types, 45 helicopters and aircraft, 9,000 military personnel are participating in the Baltops 24 exercise this year.
The most important NATO maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea started on Wednesday, June 5, in Klaipeda (Lithuania), the armed forces said in a statement.
This year, representatives of all branches of the Polish armed forces will take part in the exercises, the statement read, adding that the Polish fleet is represented by ships of the 3rd Ship Flotilla and the 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla.
As many as 20 NATO countries will take part in the exercise: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Turkiye, the United Kingdom, Italy and the USA.
Activities will take place throughout the Baltic Sea basin, as well as onshore in Sweden, Poland, Germany and Lithuania. Russian officials have repeatedly spoken against further militarization of the Baltic Sea and turning it into a NATO Lake.
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Useless show of force, Russia out ranks them at any moment, that is why the West wants to go nuclear, or hegemony is completely lost forever.