Lithuania Holds 2018 NATO Thunder Storm Military Exercises

PABRADE, LITHUANIA - JUNE 07: A KZO reconaissance drone of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, launches with the help of a booster rocket during Thunder Storm 2018 multinational NATO military exercises on June 7, 2018 near Pabrade, Lithuania. Two NATO exercises: Thunder Storm 2018, which is being hosted and led by Lithuania, and Saber Strike 2018, which is being held across the three Baltic nations and is led by the United States Army, are coinciding this week and will run until mid-June. NATO, in an initiative called enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) first launched in 2017, maintains multinational NATO battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as a defensive deterrent against Russia. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)