Overview

• Germany's navy is directing a multi-week logistics exercise that shifts troops and equipment from Rostock toward Lithuania’s port of Klaipeda.
• More than 8,000 personnel from 14 countries are involved, including all NATO allies on the Baltic Sea plus the U.S., U.K., France and Canada.
• The Bundeswehr counts 40 ships, 20 aircraft and over 1,800 road vehicles assigned to the operation.
• A ferry loaded with military vehicles departed Rostock for Klaipeda under escort by police, a corvette, a minesweeper and a helicopter.
• Gen. Carsten Breuer says the aim is deterrence and to demonstrate Germany’s role as NATO’s supply hub, with parts of Quadriga overlapping in timing with the Russia-Belarus Zapad exercise expected to exceed 13,000 troops.