Sergey Startsev. The Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to the Italian air force, flying in the airspace of the Baltic region in connection with the Ukrainian crisis, "has already made ten of shares associated with the intercept relative to the potential of hostile aircraft," said Thursday the head of the Ministry of defense of Italy Roberta Pinotti. Speaking at a General meeting of the committees on international relations and defense of both chambers of the national Parliament, the head of the Italian Ministry of defence stressed that the story is about the interception of aircraft that approached airspace of NATO countries. Four Italian Eurofighter were obliged to fulfill its mission in the Baltic States before the end of April. However, in early February Pinotti said that at the request of the government of Lithuania, the mission of these aircraft will be extended for another Four months. The Minister also told the deputies about the fact that because of the increasing terrorist threat looming in the environment in the process of dramatic events in Tunisia, it was decided about the increasing presence of air and naval power in the Central Mediterranean.