Tensions: Obama sends six fighters for NATO Baltics patrols Over Ukraine Crimea

[AFP] The United States sent six additional F-15 fighter jets to step up NATO's air patrols over the Baltic states, mission host Lithuania said as West-Russia tensions simmered over Ukraine.

"I have had confirmation that the air police missions will be reinforced by six additional F-15 fighters," Defence Minister Juozas Olekas told AFP.

The move is a response to "Russian aggression in Ukraine and additional military activity in the Kaliningrad region," Russia's exclave bordering  Lithuania and Poland, he said.

"We have witnessed increased military activity in Kaliningrad. Today it is less than three or four days before."