NATO, Drones and Russia
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WOHYN, Poland (AP) — Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described Wednesday as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the alliance confronted a potential threat in its airspace.
The incursion of a significant number of Russian drones into Poland is a dramatic and unsettling escalation of the war in Ukraine.
NATO will launch an "eastern sentry" to bolster defence of Europe's eastern flank, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Friday, adding that Russia's recklessness in the air is increasing in frequency.