The exercises started on Thursday and are supposed to end on February 20. The Baltic states want more information about the nature of the exercises and the equipment involved.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Liisa Toots told ERR that Lithuania had sent a request to Belarus on behalf of the three Baltic states on Wednesday regarding the OSCE Vienna Document.

"Unfortunately, the information provided by Belarus so far about the exercise has been insufficient," she said. 

launched an appeal to @OSCE on the extraordinary movement of troops+equipment from #Russia to #Belarus in preparation for their unscheduled joint large scale military exercise Union Resolve 2022. #Belarus must provide details in 48h as per Vienna Document regulations.

— MoD Estonia (@MoD_Estonia) February 10, 2022

The Vienna Document allows all member states to ask for exercise information as a confidence-building measure whenever they feel threatened by another member's troop movements.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have requested a "detailed explanation on the exercise," including the total number of troops, battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery pieces, mortars and rocket launchers, envisaged sorties per aircraft, and rapid-reaction forces involved, a spokesperson for the Estonian Embassy in Washington told website Defense News.

It's unclear what response, if any, the Baltics can expect, the portal wrote.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security organization with 57 members.

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