article_snippet.sent: Last month, Moscow announced plans on placing state-of-the-art Iskander missiles in Russian exclave Kaliningrad  for what government representatives called a 'major military exercise'.
article_snippet.sent: Kaliningrad, which has a population of just under 1million, plays an important role in the maintenance of the Russian Baltic fleet.
article_snippet.sent: Moscow has proposed visa-free travel between Kaliningrad and the EU several times, but the motions have been rejected.
article_snippet.sent: Last month, Swedish Air Force and NATO jets tracked four Russian combat aircraft - two long-range, nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 bombers and two Sukhoi Su-27 fighters
article_snippet.sent: - flying with their transponders turned off in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
article_snippet.sent: NATO said NATO scrambled Danish jets and Italian jets based in Lithuania  to identify the Russian aircraft which NATO said were heading to Kaliningrad. '
article_snippet.sent: the Russian aircraft which it said were heading to Kaliningrad did not use the Russian aircraft which it said were heading to Kaliningrad onboard transponder; the Russian aircraft which it said were heading to Kaliningrad were not in contact with civilian Air Traffic Control and the Russian aircraft which it said were heading to Kaliningrad were not on a pre-filed flight plan,' a NATO military officer said.
article_snippet.sent: Last month, Russian military maneuvers that spread from the Arctic to the Black Sea involved 80,000 troops, about 100 navy ships and more than 220 aircraft.
highlights_snippet.sent: Moscow has announced Moscow are set to place missiles in the exclave .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Both NATO and Russia are carrying out military exercises in the Baltic .