Russia’s War Games Spill Secrets, Stiffen NATO Resolve

Russian jets probing NATO airspace and supersized war drills are spilling Kremlin military secrets and scaring European nations into stiffening their armed forces.

Allied jets “have been scrambled over 400 times” this year to intercept Russian planes -- a 50 percent rise over 2013, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday. A report by the European Leadership Network, a London-based security research group, termed the incidents “a highly disturbing picture of violations of national airspace” and “narrowly avoided mid-air collisions.”