According to Estonian information, three fighter jets from the Russian Air Force entered Estonian airspace on Friday and remained there for a total of twelve minutes. In the past few weeks, Russian drones had also penetrated into airspace over Poland and Romania.
US ambassador Waltz said that Russia “urgently had to hire this dangerous behavior”. US President Donald Trump assured the Balten states and Poland on Sunday to defend NATO partners in the event of a further escalation by Russia. Trump replied to a corresponding reporter question: “Yes, I would.”
WadePhul accused Russia of a “serious violation of international law” at the security council meeting. With “its ruthless behavior, Russia is a serious danger to regional security as well as for global peace and stability,” emphasized the CDU politician.
Germany is one of the signatories of a joint explanation of a total of 49 countries and the EU, which sharply condemn the Russian procedure. In the text, they accused Russia of a “dangerous escalation”. Similar incidents in Poland and Romania suggested a “pattern of Russian provocations against its neighbors”, which endangered the whole region.
The EU foreign commissioner Kaja Kallas said in New York that Russia could “accidentally” violate European airspace within two weeks. “Russia tests the European borders and checks our determination,” emphasized Kallas. “It will continue to provoke as long as we allow that.”
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski spoke of an “escalation of the hybrid war that Russia has been leading against the West for years”. This also included murders of politicians, journalists or human rights activists, hacker attacks on hospitals and banks as well as disinformation campaigns.
The Kremlin accused NATO countries to tighten the tensions by “unfounded” accusations. The Russian UN ambassador Dmitry Poliaskij assumed Estonia “Russian hysteria”.
NATO triggered the youngest alarm on Sunday, this time because of a Russian military machine over the Baltic Sea. The fighter jet moved in international airspace, as the German Air Force announced. Two Eurofighter, alarmed by NATO, then rose from the Rostock Laage base in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
At the request of Estonia, a meeting of the NATO council according to Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty will take place in Brussels. In the event that a Member State sees its security threatened, this provides for the defense alliance.
Federal Foreign Minister WadePhul also condemned the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine in New York. Moscow repeated negotiative initiatives, most recently those of the United States, he criticized. The Russian attacks should stop.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha again called for “devastating sanctions” against Russia and other “deterrent packages for Ukraine”. Waiting is not a strategy, he said to the USA and the EU. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj wants to meet Trump on the edge of the UN Generalbatte this week and advise him on how to proceed.
