NATO leaders have called Russia the alliance's most direct threat.
NATO forces intercepted Russian navy ships and aircraft near the alliance's sea and airspace this week, amid leaders gathering in the U.S.Germany said Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft on a NATO air policing mission scrambled to identify two Russian MiG-29 jets off the coast of Latvia, according to a brief statement by the Luftwaffe.
Their movements to and from the North Sea and the wider North Atlantic Ocean are closely watched.In Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, NATO leaders gathering for the alliance's 75th anniversary declared Russia 'the most significant and direct threat' to their security amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.'We fully support Ukraine's right to choose its own security arrangements and decide its own future, free from outside interference. Ukraine's future is in NATO.
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