{"id":439674,"date":"2025-09-20T23:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439674\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:56:25","slug":"russia-testing-nato-with-warplane-incursion-estonia-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439674\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia \u2018testing\u2019 NATO with warplane incursion, Estonia warns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier Friday, Estonian officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russian-fighter-jets-breach-estonian-airspace-near-tallinn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed to POLITICO<\/a> that three warplanes had crossed into Estonian airspace and were forced out after Italian jets were scrambled to deal with what the EU\u2019s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, described as an \u201cextremely serious provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand that Putin doesn\u2019t want to have any kind of peace in Ukraine,\u201d Tsahkna said. \u201cInstead, Putin is bombing Ukraine, killing people in the middle of the day &#8230; also more actively against NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Estonia, the top diplomat confirmed, has triggered Article 4 of NATO\u2019s treaties, which calls for urgent discussions with allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is testing NATO, the unity of Europe,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Eastern flank is taking more responsibilities. We are the first line &#8230; Article 4, we call it now and we need to have a conversation about what can we do more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement early Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1969325885498016056\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1969325885498016056\" target=\"_blank\">Moscow denied<\/a> that its jets violated Estonia airspace. &#8220;On 19 September, three Russian MiG31 fighter jets made a scheduled flight from Karelia to an airfield in the Kaliningrad region,&#8221; Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1969325885498016056\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1969325885498016056\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a> on social media. &#8220;The aircraft <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia_en\/23339\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia_en\/23339\" target=\"_blank\">did not deviate from the agreed route<\/a> and did not violate Estonian airspace,&#8221; is said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the third such breach of NATO airspace in a matter of days \u2014 with Russian drones crossing over into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-drone-nato-incursions-poland-gaps-western-arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-top-diplomat-decries-russias-breach-of-romanian-airspace\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romania<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier Friday, Estonian officials confirmed to POLITICO that three warplanes had crossed into Estonian airspace and were forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[18992,767,3444,32,2595,35,1112,2596,660,2661,770,1438,332,2663,657,1220,333,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-439674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-airspace","9":"tag-baltics","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-estonia","15":"tag-kaja-kallas","16":"tag-kremlin","17":"tag-oil","18":"tag-poland","19":"tag-romania","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-sanctions","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","24":"tag-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-war","26":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115239333720711924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}