All in all, NATO fighter-jets were scrambled about 150 times in 2014 to escort Russian military airplanes, which represents a threefold increase from the year before.
NATO fighter-jets guarding the Baltic skies are deployed in Lithuania, Estonia and Poland.
On 1 January, Italian and Polish contingents and airmen took over the NATO air policing mission, based in Šiauliai, from Portuguese and Canadian aviators.
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