German Eurofighters reach Romania for NATO missions amid Ukraine crisis

A Eurofighter jet, which is transferred to Romania in order to patrol the airspace in a NATO mission, takes off at the German Air Force base in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany, February 17, 2022. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - German Air Force Eurofighters arrived at a military air base in eastern Romania on Thursday as part of a deployment to NATO's eastern flanks amid a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's border, the defence ministry said.

The three Eurofighters and roughly 60 soldiers will join Italian and Romanian forces for enhanced air policing missions over the next three weeks. German air forces ran similar missions alongside British air forces in Romania in 2021.