Alexey Bogdanovsky. Patrol aviation in the EU decreased to normal levels, said to reporters on Thursday, the commander of the NATO forces in the European Union Philip Breedlove. "There was a period of sharp increase in the number of aircraft patrols, currently their number has declined in practice to norms," Breedlove said Thursday at a press conference at the Pentagon. according to his statement, in certain months the activity was even lower than usual. amid disagreements with NATO allies on Ukraine, Russia has said it is very quickly increased NATO activity near its borders, and the Alliance, for its part, stated that "unusual" activity of the Russian military, for example, about the frequent flights of Russian long-range aviation.