Overview

• France will deploy three Rafale jets and Germany will double its Eurofighter detachment and extend its air-policing mission to strengthen protection of Polish airspace.
• The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency session for Friday to discuss Poland’s accusation of a deliberate violation of its airspace.
• Poland says multiple drones were shot down with NATO support in the alliance’s first known engagement of potential threats inside allied airspace, with no casualties reported.
• President Donald Trump called the drone crossings possibly a “mistake,” even as his NATO ambassador pledged to defend every inch of alliance territory and European leaders condemned the incursion.
• Warsaw tightened border and airspace controls on the eastern frontier, including closures linked to Belarusian-Russian drills, and announced additional deployments to bolster defenses.