Overview

• Tallinn says three Russian MiG-31s spent about 12 minutes inside Estonian airspace over the Gulf of Finland with transponders off and no radio contact, prompting NATO scrambles by Italian F-35s and aircraft from Sweden and Finland.
• The Security Council convenes Monday at Estonia’s request, the first emergency meeting the country has sought in its 34 years of UN membership.
• NATO’s North Atlantic Council will meet Tuesday in Brussels at ambassador level after Estonia triggered Article 4 consultations, with the alliance continuing its Eastern Sentry reinforcement of the eastern flank.
• Russia denies any violation, while EU and NATO officials condemned the incident and Lithuania and Latvia summoned Russian diplomats to lodge protests.
• President Donald Trump pledged to defend Poland and the Baltic states if Russia escalates, as Estonia’s Jonatan Vseviov cautioned that future intrusions could be shot down and Poland signaled it would down clear-cut violators.