Overview

• Tallinn reports three Russian MiG-31s entered Estonian airspace near Vaindloo for about twelve minutes without filed flight plans, transponders or radio contact.
• NATO says allied fighters reacted immediately and intercepted the aircraft, with Italy’s F-35s leading Baltic air policing and regional jets placed on alert.
• Estonia published photos and a flight-route graphic indicating a roughly ten-kilometre incursion, while Moscow claims the flight stayed over neutral waters and violated no borders.
• Poland reports two Russian jets flew at low altitude near the Petrobaltic offshore platform, breaching its safety zone, and Warsaw raised air defense and radar units to highest readiness.
• The North Atlantic Council plans consultations early next week under Article 4 as allies weigh responses to recent drone and aircraft incidents along NATO’s eastern flank.