Air policing missions like this - and Nato membership more broadly - have long made tiny Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia ...

Germany’s Federal Intelligence ... Ukraine is not a member of 32-nation Nato - which is built on the cornerstone of its treaty’s article five, that an armed attack against one or more members ...

Germany allocated eight Eurofighter fighter jets to the drills, which involve a total of 90 aircraft ... the air forces of NATO member states do not mention "a Russian attack." ...