Europe’s East Seeks NATO Response to Russia Airspace Violations
A Shahed drone in flight.
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Defense ministers from from nine eastern European nations urged NATO to prepare a “collective answer” to mounting cases of airspace violations by Russia among nations bordering Ukraine.
Ministers from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia signed a joined statement expressing “profound concern” over incursions into North Atlantic Treaty Organization states by Russian drones and missiles. Defense chiefs from the so-called B-9 group, all NATO members, met Wednesday in Bucharest.