Nine US Air Force combat helicopters have arrived in Lithuania to participate in the exercise, a source in the Lithuanian army said.
The fact of the helicopter overflight over Vilnius was recorded by users of the broadcaster’s website, who sent the pictures they took. “Representatives of the Lithuanian army, contacted by the editors, explained that seven American Apache helicopters and two Black Hawk helicopters proceeded to the training ground in Pabradė to participate in the exercises,” the radio station reported. Where this equipment came to Lithuania was not specified.
In the area of the city of Pabrade, Svenčioni district, which is not far from the eastern border of Lithuania with Belarus, there is the central training ground of the Lithuanian army.