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The air base in Neuburg an der Donau.
Three Eurofighters of the 74th Tactical Air Force Squadron left the base for Romania.
They are to support the NATO air surveillance mission in Eastern Europe.
However, NATO is out of the question of providing military assistance to the Ukrainians against Putin's invasion.
Hans-Lothar Domröse Ex-NATO General »NATO will observe. Ukraine, to be clear again, is not NATO territory and President Biden and all the other heads of government have said that we will not intervene militarily. So the military part is clear: Ukraine is on its own. «
From NATO's point of view, one thing is particularly important now: to upgrade its own eastern border, with people and material - and thus to deter Putin from further aggression towards Europe.
Hans-Lothar Domröse Ex-Nato General »Poland is now directly on it. The airfields near Lemberg, that's on the Polish border, we'll build up defense there, on the southern flank, just like in the Baltic States. I hear from the press that Germany is reinforcing up there in Lithuania, rightly.«
Eastern member countries of NATO in particular fear that after Ukraine they will become the target of Russian expansion plans.
More than 300 US soldiers are to be transferred to Latvia, and the first have already arrived.
Washington has sent another 4,700 soldiers to Poland – doubling the US troop presence.
Hans-Lothar Domröse Ex-Nato General »The great danger, not today, not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow, the danger is that this Suwalki Gap, our only land connection, if you will, between Poland and the Baltic States, that he takes and stops the 80 kilometers and builds a bridge between Kaliningrad and Belarus. And then he says he fears genocide in Kaliningrad and that denazification has to take place there. And it's all terrible and I have to march in now. «
Ukraine, however, is on its own in its struggle.
A battle they cannot win against the well-equipped and vastly outnumbered Russian invasion forces.
