ROSTOCK, Germany — Germany is leading a major military exercise that focuses on moving troops and equipment to Lithuania as tensions with Russia on the eastern fringe of NATO simmer.

The German military leadership joined ambassadors of the Baltic nations and officers from other countries in the port of Rostock on Thursday to watch a ferry loaded with military vehicles leave the harbor headed for Klaipeda, Lithuania, escorted by police, a corvette, a minesweeper and a helicopter.

Military experts also demonstrated the interception of drones in the air and on the water, and Eurofighter jets flew over the port.

The exercise dubbed Quadriga is under the German navy's leadership and its various components, in which the army and air force also are participating. It involves more than 8,000 se

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