For the first time in history: Germany overturned fighters to Poland against the backdrop of joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus
The planes will protect the Polish airspace. About it reports T-online. "As part of NATO's collective defense strengthening, five Eurofighter Eurofighter EF-2000 fighters of the German Air Force will be placed on the 23rd tactical air base in the city of Minsk-Mazovets. German fighter jets are released to the airfield east of Warsaw since August 5, and they will stay there a little less than a month. About 150 servicemen of the Bundeswehr will be thrown there for their service.
The German Air Force says they help protect Poland's airspace since April. Warsaw invited Warsaw. The air base near the city of Minsk-Masovetsky is located 100 km from the border with Belarus and 160 km from Ukraine. Earlier, the Polish Air Force repeatedly lift fighters into the air during Russian blows in the western Ukrainian regions. The Luftwaffe representative said that the redeployment of German fighter jets to Poland is the first time.
"From tomorrow, Luftwaffe Eurofighter fighters will act for the first time from the Minsk-Mazovets air base. " She called this operation a "convincing restraint". The Bundeswehr's servicemen at the Polish air base were thrown by the Luftwaffe Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft. The publication notes that German soldiers have already been deployed at the Polish airfield of Yasenko near Rzeszu. There they protect the airspace with two Patriot air defense complexes.
Joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises "West 2025" are scheduled for autumn. In June, transport aviation of the Russian Federation began flights to the aerodromes of the satellite country. Flights of military transport aircraft IL-76 and heavy "transporters" An-124-100 are carried out at the Air Force Air Force in the village of Machulyshchi, Minsk district. The training repeated the key elements of Ukrainian tactics in the Black Sea.