NATO on high alert
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The joint letter comes a day after Poland said it shot down a number of Russian drones that violated its airspace during an attack on Ukraine.
NATO’s Baltic members sent a joint letter to the US Congress, asking for a key military financing initiative to be preserved after the Pentagon said it planned to cut funding for European nations bordering Russia.
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.
NATO’s response was commendable, but it also underscored the need to bolster defenses along the alliance’s eastern border.
Russia's drone incursions into NATO members risk escalating into "exchange (of) the use of military power against each other", Lithuanian Foreign Affairs minister Kestutis Budrys told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday,
Military capability of Western alliance remains 'formidable' despite questions around untested 'mutual assistance' agreement as Trump pivots away from Europe