The Daily Populous Saturday September 20th, 2025 day edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by AlertTangerine

"The Russians have been flying this exact airspace for decades. It's difficult to see how this wasn't intentional," a U.S. official told POLITICO.

Estonia in response is invoking NATO's Article 4, which requires alliance members to convene for urgent talks, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna confirmed to POLITICO.

“This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond,” NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas described the incursion as "an extremely dangerous provocation," adding that the EU "will continue to support our member states in strengthening their defences with European resources."

Estonia said it has also summoned Russia’s chargé d’affaires in Tallinn.

“Russia has violated Estonian airspace four times already this year, which is unacceptable in itself, but today’s violation, during which three fighter jets entered our airspace, is unprecedentedly brutal,” Tsahkna said. “Russia’s ever-increasing testing of borders and aggression must be responded to by rapidly strengthening political and economic pressure.”

ottofrosch on September 19th, 2025 at 21:44 UTC »

Just shoot one down.

Russia seems to only respect what they call strength under the current leadership.

We should know that we are capable of doing so. When the jets manage to avoid the hits. Fine. But then the message would be clear and we'd know that we need better missiles.

fuggitdude22 on September 19th, 2025 at 20:19 UTC »

Is Putin on life support or something? He seems to be really trying to poke the tiger like he is.

xwell320 on September 19th, 2025 at 19:11 UTC »

Nothing will be done. Russia will continue to escalate.