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NATO talks Russia's Baltic stronghold

should read "stalks"

another consequence of putins rash choice of war
a complete disaster for russia strategicaly

Russia's northwestern borders faced a wave of new spy flights this month as NATO ramped up surveillance to protect its expanded flank on the Baltic Sea.

GPS data captured on Wednesday by the aircraft-tracking website Flightradar24 showed a pair of American and British planes sweeping the borders of Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, utilizing the allied airspace of Poland in the south and Lithuania in the north.

Newsweek's map, displaying Coordinated Universal Time, tracks the hourslong reconnaissance sorties by a U.S. Air Force RC-135V Rivet Joint, call sign JAKE17, and a Royal Air Force RC-135W Rivet Joint, call sign RRR7213, operating out of separate air bases in the United Kingdom.

They were among at least seven crewed flights in August by the allied Rivet Joints—Boeing-built signals intelligence aircraft—which were augmented by dozens of other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, missions by NATO members amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.