{"id":397572,"date":"2025-09-04T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:28:11","slug":"germany-leads-joint-military-drills-in-the-baltic-sea-amid-russia-threat-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397572\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany leads joint military drills in the Baltic Sea amid Russia threat fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbsp<b>Euronews<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            04\/09\/2025 &#8211; 17:02 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The German army is leading joint military exercises in the Baltic Sea amid tensions with Russia over the war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>The Bundeswehr confirmed that 40 ships, 20 aircraft and more than 1,800 road vehicles are participating in the &#8220;Quadriga&#8221; drills. <\/p>\n<p>Military leaders from Germany and ambassadors from Baltic nations were among those who gathered in the German port of Rostock on Thursday to see the exercises. <\/p>\n<p>They saw the departure of a ferry loaded with army vehicles, which was bound for Klaipeda in Lithuania and which was accompanied by a corvette, a helicopter and a minesweeper, as well as by police. <\/p>\n<p>In total, some 8,000 officers from 14 countries are taking part in the multi-week exercises, including all NATO countries with Baltic Sea coasts as well as other alliance members such as the UK, France and the US. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday, General Carsten Breuer, the head of the German army, said &#8220;we are seeing close up today what it means in concrete terms when Germany takes international responsibility&#8221; and acts as a &#8220;reliable supply hub for NATO.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost all supply routes to the eastern flank go via Germany,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Breuer said that his army was &#8220;vigilant&#8221; as Russia and Belarus prepared to start joint military exercises \u2014 called Zapad (West) \u2014 in mid-September. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The threat remains unchanged, both hybrid and conventional,&#8221; Breuer noted. &#8220;Putin is watching us, and his plans go far beyond Ukraine. As armed forces, we must prepare ourselves for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Breuer also stressed that &#8220;we want deterrence, we don&#8217;t want escalation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Amid the threat posed to European security by Russian aggression, Germany is, like other NATO members, scaling up its military expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin hopes to see tens of thousands of more soldiers join the Bundeswehr. <\/p>\n<p>As part of these efforts, the German cabinet backed a draft bill in late August which aims to bolster the country&#8217;s defences by increasing the number of troops from 182,000 to 260,000 by early next decade. <\/p>\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 AP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspEuronews Published on 04\/09\/2025 &#8211; 17:02 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The German army is leading joint military exercises in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[72532,2000,299,1824,109261,2821,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-397572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-baltic-countries","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-military-drill","13":"tag-nato","14":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146739556130545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}