France has announced plans to prepare 7,000 troops for potential deployment to Ukraine in 2026, signaling a major shift in NATO’s posture toward the conflict. French Army Chief Pierre Schill said the rapid response force could mobilize within 12 hours to 5 days,

As China and Russia try to weaken NATO nations through cyberattacks, the alliance is responding with plans for better coordination – including for counterattack.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said Thursday that Russian military aircraft violated Lithuania’s airspace, calling the incursion a blatant breach of the country’s sovereignty and international law.

Russia appears to have been deterred by NATO's firm response last month to incursions into Polish and Estonian airspace, but Moscow is expected to continue testing boundaries, the U.S. general serving as NATO's top commander said on Tuesday.

The main reason that no one else has tried to build something like this is that it doesn’t really have any use," one expert told NBC News.

Nato is discussing new rules that could make it easier to shoot down Russian fighter jets. The talks are focused on drawing up a single set of guidelines for engaging enemy aircraft. Defence chiefs want Russian jets carrying ground-attack missiles over allied airspace to be possible targets.

Wall St. Insights NATO was founded in 1949 for the collective self-defense of the Western allied countries against Soviet expansionism.  For Russia to join, it would have to experience a political and social transformation that would make it fully cooperative and non-threatening to the alliance—an unlikely scenario.

Unmanned aircraft were also spotted across the Baltic nations, Romania and Norway, though Russia refutes any misconduct. The Polish violation prompted a Quick Reaction Alert, with both Polish Air Force jets and additional NATO military forces deploying aircraft in response.