Denmark, France and Germany have joined a new mission to bolster the military alliance's eastern flank after Russian drones flew into Poland on Wednesday.

Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down.

The incursion of a significant number of Russian drones into Poland is a dramatic and unsettling escalation of the war in Ukraine.

Nato fighter jets shot down Russian drones over Poland in the first ever direct engagement between the Western alliance and Moscow.

NATO says it's bulking up its defensive posture on its eastern flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine with new equipment

Days after a dozen Russian attack drones violated Poland's airspace, several nations are sending additional assets to better defend NATO's eastern flank.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has expressed solidarity with neighbour and NATO partner Poland following the downing of several Russian drones in Polish airspace. Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening all of Europe and systematically testing how far he can go,