Overview

• Secretary General Mark Rutte told Fox News he agrees with President Trump that allied forces should be prepared to fire if Russian planes enter NATO airspace.
• An unnamed NATO official told CNN the president’s remark is not being treated as an effort to alter alliance procedures or strategy.
• Russia’s ambassador to France, Alexey Meshkov, warned that a NATO shootdown of a Russian aircraft would constitute war.
• The Kremlin and Russia’s Defense Ministry reject allegations of violations, saying Russian flights adhere to international aviation rules.
• Estonia requested Article 4 consultations after alleging three MiG-31s crossed its border, a claim Moscow disputes, as the North Atlantic Council has assigned Russia responsibility for recent UAV and aircraft incidents in Poland and Estonia.