NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight, officials said Tuesday. Separately, Denmark said that one of its air force helicopters was fired on with flares as it was carrying out surveillance of a Russian frigate in the Baltic Sea. France 24’s Philip Turle takes a look at what Moscow’s motives might be for this seeming increase in incidents inside NATO and EU territory.
NATO reinforced its warnings following a succession of incidents in the Baltic and the eastern flank; the EU denounces an increasingly reckless pattern of “aggression and provocation”