Latvia urges NATO to bolster Baltic air defence after Russian incursions

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics urged NATO on Saturday to increase its protection of the Baltic States, citing Russian violations of the alliance’s
airspace, and adding to a similar call from Lithuania.
NATO leaders have said Russia has repeatedly violated alliance airspace, including in the Baltic States and Poland, where earlier this month NATO jets shot down multiple Russian drones. The following week, Estonia said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated its airspace for 12 minutes before NATO fighter
jets escorted them out.
“Russia continues a pattern of provocations, most recently recklessly violating the airspace of Poland and Estonia,” Rinkevics told a meeting of NATO’s military committee in the Latvian capital, Riga.