Prior to both Estonia and Poland, and now possibly Denmark, invoking NATO Article 4 this month, the last time that a member of the alliance requested consultations under Article 4 was at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Germany’s Defense Ministry is reporting that a pair of Russian “Luch-Olymp-K” Signals-Surveillance Satellites are actively “shadowing” two Intelsat-operated communication satellites utilized by the German Armed Forces and NATO, stating that the ongoing action is a “fundamental threat” against NATO by Russia.

In September 2018, France’s Minister of the Armed Forces claimed that in 2017 a Luch-Olymp-K Satellite had crept close to the “Athena-Fidus” Telecommunication Satellite, operated jointly by France and Italy and used for secure military communications and the planning of operations by NATO, calling it an “Act of Espionage.” Previous maneuvers by Russia’s Olymp-K have caused serious concern and a number of classified meetings by the U.S. Department of Defense.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has confirmed that several military aircraft with the Russian Aerospace Forces, 2 Tu-95MS “Bear” Long-Range Strategic Bombers and 2 Su-35SM “Flanker-M” Multirole Fighters, violated the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) last night, resulting in the scramble of an E-3C “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft, 4 F-16 “Fighting Falcon” Multirole Fighters, and 4 KC-135R “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers to track and intercepted the aircraft until they left the ADIZ.

Israel is currently carrying out strikes against the Yemeni capital of Sana’a in Houthi-controlled Western Yemen, following a drone strike yesterday against the Southern Israeli city of Eilat which resulted in over 20 injuries, for which responsibility was claimed by the Houthis.

In addition to overnight drone sightings above and around several airports and military airbases in Denmark, authorities have stated they are also investigating reports of unknown drones seen and detected by ship-based radars last night over Danish-operated oil fields in the North Sea.

Footage showing the moments immediately following Israeli strikes earlier against Sana’a in Houthi-controlled Western Yemen.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly accepted an invitation from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha to visit Ukraine.

Poland is preparing to amend its law on military deployments abroad to allow its forces to shoot down “hostile objects” launched by Russia, such as drones and missiles, over Ukraine without prior approval from NATO or the European Union, according to Euractiv.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a rare, urgent gathering of nearly all Generals and Admirals in the U.S. Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Space Force next week at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, for a currently unknown reason, according to The Washington Post.

Denmark has activated its National Crisis Management System following last night’s drone intrusions by an unknown actor over airports and military airbases across the country, with the National Operational Staff (NOST), which is headed by the Danish National Police and consists of representatives from the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), Danish Health Authority, Danish Defense Command, Danish Security and Intelligence Service (DSIS), Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Critical Supply Agency, and the Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority, to remain assembled 24/7.

Wing of Zion carrying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where he is expected to attend the United Nations General Assembly and several other diplomatic meetings, before traveling to Washington, D.C. on Monday for a meeting at the White House with U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

NATO Allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian fighter jets that violate NATO’s Airspace, with some countries including the United States, Poland and the Baltic States signaling that future violations should be met with force, while others, including Germany, urge more restraint from allies, according to CNN.

The issue reportedly came to a head during an emergency defense consultation meeting Tuesday requested by Estonia under NATO Article 4, which was called after Estonian Airspace was violated last week by several Russian MiG-31s over the Gulf of Finland. During the meeting, representatives from several countries, including Poland and Estonia, wanted the joint statement following the meeting to make clear that any additional violations by Russia, including from manned aircraft, would be met with lethal force, but Germany and some member countries in Southern Europe pushed to remove that language from the statement, claiming that it was too escalatory against Russia.

Even U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, the Commander of United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, urged restraint to any escalatory statement from NATO, suggesting that the Russian incursion into Estonia was likely accidental given the inexperience and insufficient training of pilots in the Russian Air Force. Only a day later however, President Donald J. Trump told reporters at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, that he believed NATO Allies should shoot down Russian aircraft that violate their airspace in Europe.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrived at the White House, being greeted at the entrance by President Donald J. Trump, with a reporter asking Trump is he would allow Turkey to purchase F-35s, to which he responded: “You’ll find out.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov states that NATO and the European Union have “declared war on Russia” through Ukraine, according to the Russian state-media outlet TASS.

Unidentified drones were observed this weekend over military sites near Mourmelon-le-Grand, in the Marne of Northern France, according to military sources who spoke with Radio France Internationale.

During a previously-not-made-public tense meeting earlier this week in Moscow, with the goal of deescalating tensions between Russia and NATO; British, French and German envoys told Russian officials that NATO is prepared to respond to further violations of its airspace with lethal force, according to sources with knowledge of the talks who spoke with Bloomberg.

During the talks, a Russian diplomat told the Europeans that the incursions were a response to Ukrainian strikes on Crimea, with the Kremlin stating those operations would not have been possible without NATO support and, as a result, Russia considers that it is already engaged in a confrontation involving Europe.

Ekstra Bladet is now reporting that while drone intrusions have plagued critical infrastructure and military sites over the last week across Denmark, the Aleksandr Shabalin, a Ropucha-Class Amphibious Landing Ship with Russia’s Baltic Sea Fleet, has been lingering, with its tracking systems off, near the Islands of Langeland and Lolland in Southeastern Denmark.