7 d. ago Putin tests West as FIVE Russian fighters come perilously close to Nato airspace – after warning shooting them means WW3

FIVE Russian fighter jets were caught flying perilously close to Nato airspace after Moscow warned shooting them would lead to all-out war. The Nato Allied Air Command said it intercepted three MiG-31s, one Su-30 and one Su-35 fighter jets flying in a formation off the coast of Latvia. Two Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were scrambled...

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7 d. ago Russian jets near US airspace amid soaring tensions post Trump's 'shoot down' order

Russian fighter jets have flown near US airspace for the ninth time this year, just days after President Donald Trump said he would not hesitate to shoot down Russian aircraft that enter international territory

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7 d. ago The Guardian view on Nato airspace incursions: Russia is testing European and US will. It won’t stop here | Editorial

The escalation in recent days is raising alarm. It forms part of Moscow’s broader pattern of probing and provocationThe sheer volume of headlines tells its own tale. Russian drones over Poland and Romania. Russian fighter jets in Estonian airspace. Russian aircraft buzzing a German naval frigate in the Baltic Sea. Unidentified drones over Copenhagen and Oslo airports. Most recently, in the early hours of Thursday, further drones appearing at other Danish airports.In just over a fortnight, European states have reported a striking spate of incursions into their airspace. Russia has repeatedly denied responsibility and questions remain over individual events: so far, Denmark has said only that a “professional actor” was at work in the airport incidents and that it can’t rule out Russia. But overall, there is a pattern which fits clearly into Moscow’s longer record of provocations and often implausible deniability – and which amounts to a notable escalation. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago UK ‘ready to act’ after Trump tells NATO to down Russian planes

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the UK is ‘ready to act’ after Donald Trump urged NATO countries to shoot down intruding Russian planes

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9 d. ago Trump gives NATO the green light to shoot down Russian jets in sinister warning to Putin

Donald Trump insisted that NATO nations should feel emboldened to shoot down Russian planes if they enter their countries' airspace.

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9 d. ago Trump says Nato countries should shoot down Russian aircraft entering their airspace – US politics live

US president’s comments come after series of drone incursions by Russian fighter jets; Trump also scolds European countries over migration Trump calls for nations to close borders and expel foreigners in UN speech: ‘Your countries are being ruined’Fact-check: Trump’s false and misleading claims during his UN addressWhile the Secret Service hasn’t confirmed that the telecommunications threat was targeting the United Nations general assembly, the agency said that the devices were “concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting” and the investigation is ongoing.The Secret Service added that early forensic analysis of the deviced indicates “cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump says Europe should shoot down Russian aircraft as he continues to sour on Putin's war

Donald Trump insisted that NATO nations should feel emboldened to shoot down Russian planes if they enter their countries' airspace.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump says NATO should shoot down Russian planes in WW3 threat

The US president was speaking to reporters during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in New York City

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1 week ago British jets are ready to 'confront' Russian planes in NATO airspace, foreign secretary warns after Poland declared it would 'shoot down flying objects without question'

Yvette Cooper condemned recent Russian incursions into NATO airspace as she addressed the UN Security Council for the first time as Foreign Secretary.

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1 week ago Poland's PM says the country will 'shoot down flying objects without question' after Czech president demanded NATO destroys any Russian jets that enter its airspace

Poland's prime minister says his nation will not hesitate to shoot down objects that violate its airspace and pose a threat. 

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1 week ago Listening to the Law review – Amy Coney Barrett offers little comfort about state of US law

Conservative US supreme court justice’s memoir affirms that she is first and foremost a Trump appointeeIn June 2024, a divided US supreme court handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card. Across 43 pages, chief justice John Roberts demolished the long-held belief that a president is not above the law. For Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, Christmas had come early.Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, joined the majority but voiced doubt all the same.Listening to the Law is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading...

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1 week ago RAF Typhoon jets join NATO air defence mission after Russia drone incursion

The fighter jets policed the skies close to Belarusian and Russian airspace just days after the Government announced it would provide further air defence over Poland

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1 week ago ‘Russia are testing the doorknobs like a burglar’ says David Frum as jets violate Nato airspace

David Thrum has compared Russia to burglars “testing the doorknobs” on BBC Newsnight after fighter jets invaded Estonian airspace for 12 minutes on Friday (19 September).

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1 week ago Russian fighter jet incursions in Estonia and drones in Poland: How the war in Ukraine is already a European conflict

Romania became the latest Nato member to scramble fighter jets after a Russian drone entered its airspace

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1 week ago Putin blitzes Ukraine with 500 drones and 40 missiles despite Trump's warning of 'big trouble' after Russian jets violated Estonian airspace and buzzed Polish oil rig 

Donald Trump has warned there 'could be big trouble' after Russia flew three fighter jets into neighbouring Estonia in a 'reckless' and 'brazen' attempt to intimidate the Baltic state.

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1 week ago 'I don't love it': Trump warns Putin of 'big trouble' after Russian jets entered Estonian airspace as ex

Donald Trump has warned there 'could be big trouble' after Russia flew three fighter jets into neighbouring Estonia in a 'reckless' and 'brazen' attempt to intimidate the Baltic state.

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1 week ago Trump warns of ‘big trouble’ after Russian jets enter Estonian airspace

It comes after Russian drones were shot down in Poland and spotted in Romania

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1 week ago Trump hits out at Russia after fighter jets enter Estonian airspace in ‘brazen’ incursion

The incursion in Estonia happened just over a week after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland

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1 week ago Nato jets scrambled as Russian fighters enter Estonian airspace in ‘extremely dangerous’ incursion

It comes after Russian drones were shot down in Poland and spotted in Romania

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2 w. ago Putin sends three fighter jets into NATO airspace in 'unprecedented' incursion

Three Russian fighter jets flew into a NATO member's airspace without permission in what officials called an 'unprecedently brutal' escalation

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