00:00Estonia's Ministry of Defence
00:28has published a map showing three Russian MiG-31 jets crossing into its airspace from east to west over the Gulf of Finland.
00:36The fighters penetrated up to 10 km inside Estonia, staying for 12 minutes before NATO jets intervened.
00:45The jets had no flight plans, transponders switched off, and no radio contact with air traffic control.
00:52Italian F-35s from NATO's Baltic air policing mission were scrambled to escort them out.
00:58Tallinn summoned the Russian charged affair and handed over a protest note.
01:03This is about the eastern flank, because here is a direct threat to the eastern flank from, for example, drones or whatever could threaten our allies on the eastern flank.
01:16But generally speaking, you know I don't like that whole eastern flank thinking, because it gives the impression that if I live in Madrid or in London I am safer than when I live in Tallinn.
01:25And that is not true, because these latest Russian missiles, when they will be launched, they come down with five times the speed of sound,
01:33and they will take five or ten minutes longer to reach Madrid or London than they take to reach Tallinn or Vilnius.
01:39So in that sense, let's agree that within this alliance of 32 countries, we all live on the eastern flank.
01:48Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevker announced consultations under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty,
01:54a mechanism invoked when any member feels its security is threatened.
01:58NATO's North Atlantic Council is now preparing to meet early next week.
02:02Moscow insists no violation occurred.
02:06The Russian Defence Ministry says the MiG-31s were flying from Karelia to Kaliningrad in accordance with international aviation rules,
02:14staying over neutral Baltic waters, three kilometres from Veindlou Island.
02:19Russia says objective control footage proves it.
02:23European leaders reacted sharply.
02:28EU Foreign Policy Chief Kajakalas called it a dangerous provocation, warning,
02:33weakness invites Russia to do more.
02:35US President Donald Trump told reporters,
02:38I don't love it, could be big trouble.
02:43In Warsaw, Polish PM Donald Tusk confirmed ten NATO allies have joined the new Eastern Guardian Coalition
02:49to reinforce the alliance's eastern flank.
02:52Meanwhile, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky urged Poland and Romania to shoot down hostile objects over Western Ukraine,
02:59a suggestion that sparked criticism in Poland as unnecessary.
03:06It is Russian President Vladimir Putin alone who is interested in these killings.
03:11Every day, this war remains solely his war, the war of Russia alone.
03:16And we expect the world to draw conclusions from this,
03:20especially after the drone incursion into Poland,
03:23a country that is extremely important for the security of all of Europe,
03:27a country that so highly respects America and President Trump.
03:33The same day, two Russian jets carried out a low flyover of Poland's Petro-Baltic oil drilling platform,
03:39violating its security zone in the Baltic Sea.
03:42Though no airspace was breached, Poland warned of rising risks.
03:47Analysts say the incidents form a pattern of Russian probing meant to stretch NATO's defenses and distract from Ukraine.
03:54That's why we didn't exist.
03:55We don't even know what happened.
03:56We're going to have to be a test for Ukraine.
03:57We've been trying to find him more.
03:58We've been using Vietnam for a long-term Isso from Ukraine.
03:59I think they're coming to us today.
04:00I think it's important.
04:01What are some such adventures for here,
04:02we can do this for real time?
04:03I think we're going to be an evolving side of the war.
04:04We've been doing that because we need to be a design for Ukraine.
04:05We've been doing the same kind of transformation.
04:06I think we've been doing this for today.
04:07We've been doing this as well.
04:08I've been doing this for sure.
04:09We've been doing this Monday,
04:10We're going to be doing this for today's time.
04:11We've been doing this for now.
04:12We've been a lot of communist.
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