From the Baltic to the Balkans: Putin is testing European leaders

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Recent drone incursions in the Baltics have raised alarms about security in European airspace, as Putin tests the resolve of European leaders. The situation intensifies ahead of a critical NATO summit, highlighting geopolitical tensions amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

There’s an ominous backdrop to this year’s GLOBSEC forum in Prague as the war in Ukraine strays into the skies over NATO’s Eastern flank. The last few weeks have seen an increasing number of drone incursions in the Baltics — Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — across EU airspace. And there are questions over America’s commitment to European security ahead of an important NATO summit in Ankara in July, following changes in American troop deployments, and whether the tide is really changing in […]