Six F-35 Lightning fighters fortify allied airspace in the Baltics and Black Sea regions as Russia continues its bloody invasion of Ukraine

  • US Air Force completed its deployment of F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters to NATO’s eastern flank Thursday
  • A total of six fighters moved from Germany to bases in Estonia, Lithuania and Romania
  • US troops are reinforcing the Baltics and Black Sea after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine
  • Biden says the movement is defensive in nature and that the US has ‘no intention of fighting Russia’ 
  • Ukraine is not a NATO ally, but Biden has vowed to defend ‘every inch of NATO territory’