Members of the bloc should target Russian military aircraft as Trkiye did in 2015, Lithuanian MOD chief Dovile Sakaliene has said

NATO should shoot down Russian warplanes, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene has said. Her comments came after Estonia, Lithuania's neighbor, accused Russia of violating its airspace - something that Moscow has denied.

"We need to mean business," Sakaliene said in a post on X, claiming that Russia "tested" the bloc's borders "for a reason."

Trkiye "set an example 10 years ago," the minister added, referring to an incident in which the Turkish Air Force downed a Russian bomber over Syria, where Moscow was aiding the government of then President Bashar Assad against extremist groups.

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