NATO, Russia and our airspace
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized NATO’s “weak reaction” to a series of alleged Russian airspace violations in recent weeks. “They have to shoot down everything,” Zelensky said in an interview with Axios.
Russia is destabilizing Moldova’s elections, probing NATO’s air defenses, and recalibrating against Trump’s conditional support for Ukraine.
FIVE Russian fighter jets were caught flying perilously close to Nato airspace after Moscow warned shooting them would lead to all-out war. The Nato Allied Air Command said it intercepted three
India rejected as "incorrect and baseless" remarks by NATO's chief that suggested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was contacting Russian President Vladimir Putin over the impact of punitive U.S. tariffs on its purchases of Russian oil.
Responding to the Rutte's remarks, New Delhi on Friday said, “NATO chief’s statement is factually incorrect and entirely baseless. We expect the leadership of an important institution like NATO to exercise greater responsibility and accuracy in public statements.
From the moment the Russian pilots entered Estonian airspace, they were pursued by Nato’s most advanced fighter jets.
NATO allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian jets that violate NATO’s airspace, with some countries including the US, Poland, and Baltic nations signaling that future violations should be met with force,
Russia sees what it calls the “root causes” as Ukrainian efforts to join the U.S.-led NATO alliance, which Moscow regards as a major national security threat, and the alleged persecution of Russian culture there.