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The following week, Estonia said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated its airspace for 12 minutes before NATO fighter<br \/>jets escorted them out.<br \/>&#8220;Russia continues a pattern of provocations, most recently recklessly violating the airspace of Poland and Estonia,&#8221; Rinkevics told a meeting of NATO&#8217;s military committee in the Latvian capital, Riga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics urged NATO on Saturday to increase its protection of the Baltic States, citing Russian violations of the alliance&#8217;sairspace, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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