Polish officials earlier this month said that NATO fighter jets were scrambled to shoot down multiple Russian drones that crossed into the country’s airspace, one of an increasing number of violations by Russian aircraft during its ongoing war with Ukraine.
Ukrainian and other Western officials accused Russia of testing NATO’s air responses with the incursion, an admitted weak point in the alliance’s defensive array. Russian President Vladimir Putin “just keeps escalating, expanding his war, and testing the West,” said Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrii Sybiha.
This week, the Netherlands’ Minister of Defense Ruben Brekelmans posted pictures on X that appeared to show one of the F-35 stealth fighters involved in the counter-response against the Russian crafts marked with a…more
Source www.the-express.com
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