A daily game of Cold War cat-and-mouse is ratcheting up tensions in the Baltic and drawing the biggest military presence into the region for over 20 years, Swedish military officials say. Eye-to-eye encounters with Russian combat jets and reports of suspected submarines in Swedish and Finnish waters are fuelling regional concerns about Russian assertiveness in the wake of the Ukraine crisis and reversing years of defence cuts.
Reuters: Baltic military shadow-boxing said to reach Cold War levels
Dutch soldiers, part of the flash power military unit, a rapid intervention force which also includes Germany and Norway, prepare for a international military alert exercisE, part of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), at the NATO airbase.
